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Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds

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An edition of Lives like loaded guns (2010)

Lives like loaded guns

Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds

1st American ed.

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Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
491

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Subjects
Family relationships, American Poets, Family, Intellectual life, Families, Biography, American poets, Familie, American Women poets, Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886, Poets, biography, Women poets
People
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Places
Amherst (Mass.)
Times
19th century

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Lives like loaded guns: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds
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Table of Contents

A poet next door
'A still
volcano
life.' The first family
A scientific education
Sister
'Wife without the sign'
'Snarl in the brain'
Telling
Romancing Judge Lord
Split in the family
Mabel's reign. Emily's stand
Lady Macbeth of Amherst
Mabel in Excelsis
The war between the houses. Lavinia's stand
The trial
Defeats of the first generation
Two daughters
The battle of the daughters
Posthumous campaigns
Outliving the legend.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.4
Library of Congress
PS1541.Z5 G66 2010, PS1541, PS1541.Z5G66 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
491

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OL24521129M
Internet Archive
liveslikeloadedg0000gord
ISBN 10
0670021938
ISBN 13
9780670021932
LCCN
2009046311
OCLC/WorldCat
463307679

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