Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Author(s): Lyndall Gordon
Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in her own talent; a woman whose family feuded over a hothouse of adultery and devastating betrayal; and a woman who had her own secret. After her death the fight for possession of Emily and her poetry became the feud's focus.
From the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James.
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'Lives Like Loaded Guns has cracked one of poetry's most enduring enigmas ...It rescues Dickinson from the image of the passive, heart-broken recluse. It is a worthy monument to a poet even more extraordinary than we realised' Olivia Cole, Financial Times
Lyndall Gordon is the prizewinning author of biographies including Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Shared Lives and Mary Wollstonecraft. Born and raised in South Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 01 April 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lyndall Gordon
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 811.4
- : 512
- : 16pp of b/w photos
