Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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In 1882 Emily Dickinsons brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd a young Amherst faculty wife setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. 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. Thanks to unprecedented use of letters diaries and legal documents Gordon digs deep into the life and work of Emily Dickinson to reveal the secret behind the poets insistent seclusion and presents a woman beyond her time who found love spiritual sustenance and immortality all on her own terms. An enthralling story of creative genius filled with illicit passion and betrayal Lives Like Loaded Guns is sure to cause a stir among Dickinsons many devoted readers and scholars.
