This Brief Tragedy
unraveling the Todd-Dickinson affair
by John Evangelist Walsh
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Dear cousins, Called back. Emily. Why did Emily Dickinson write this cryptic note to her spinster cousins just before she died? In this arresting, even startling re-evaluation of the poet's final years -- and her posthumous career -- John Evangelist Walsh examines the effect of several tragedies that struck Dickinson in the last four years of her life: the illicit love affair between her brother, Austin, and a young married woman, Mabel Todd; the deaths of her nephew Gilbert and her adored Judge Otis Lord (who may have been the "Master" of her middle years); and the Bright's disease that made her an invalid. The combination of these afflictions, Walsh demonstrates, may have led Emily to take her own life. - Jacket flap.
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This Brief Tragedy: unraveling the Todd-Dickinson affair
1991, G. Weidenfeld, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index.
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