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

Virago, London, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Second impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 491 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing detected in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. There is a small remainder mark. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson's poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come down to us as a woman disappointed in love, an odd and pathetic woman who dressed in white and shut herself away. Lyndall Gordon sees instead her volcanic character - 'a soul at White Heat' - a mystic and lover whose family harboured a hothouse drama of sex, scandal and devastating betrayal. Emily Dickinson was a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual quickening and immortality all on her own terms: she wrote 'My Life had Stood - a Loaded Gun'. Here is an explosive genius. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; England; Poetry. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781844086856. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5521. . 9781844086856