Lives like loaded guns

By Lyndall Gordon

Subjects: Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886, Biography, American Women poets, Intellectual life, Women poets, Families, Familie, Family, American Poets, American poets, Family relationships, Poets, biography

Description: 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.