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Author Gordon, Lyndall.

Title Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 DICKINSON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY DICKINSON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. DICKINSON, E.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B DICKINSON FAMILY    DUE 04-10-24
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B DICKINSON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  811.4 DICKINSON    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY DICKINSON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B DICKINSON, EMILY    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B DICKINSON FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  811.4 GORDON    Check Shelf

Edition First American edition.
Description xvii, 491 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-470) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents The first family -- A scientific education -- Sister -- 'Wife without the sign' -- 'Snarl in the brain' -- Telling -- Romancing Judge Lord -- Split in the family -- Emily's stand -- Lady Macbeth of Amherst -- Mabel in Excelsis -- Lavinia's stand -- The trial -- Defeats of the first generation -- Two daughters -- The battle of the daughters -- Posthumous campaigns.
Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships.
Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780670021932
0670021938
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