Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

by Lyndall Gordon

Book Overview

In 1882, Emily Dickinson's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670021938
• ISBN13: 9780670021932
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher