MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01955cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2009046311
003 DLC
005 20111110081936.0
008 091102s2010 nyuabcj b 001 0deng
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050 00 $aPS1541.Z5$bG66 2010
082 00 $a811/.4$222
100 1 $aGordon, Lyndall.
245 10 $aLives like loaded guns :$bEmily Dickinson and her family's feuds /$cLyndall Gordon.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2010.
300 $axvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., geneal. table, map, ports. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.
520 $aLyndall 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.
505 0 $aA 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.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886$xFamily.
650 0 $aPoets, American$y19th century$xFamily relationships.
651 0 $aAmherst (Mass.)$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2009046311-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2009046311-d.html