| A New Emily Dickinson Biography |
[Aug. 13th, 2010|09:08 pm] |
"Lives Like Loaded Guns," Lyndall Gordon's book about Emily Dickinson and the fury that surrounded the publication of her poems, reads like a fabulous detective story, replete with hidden treasure, diabolical adversaries and a curse from one generation to the next. Very few of Dickinson's poems were published during her lifetime, and they might have remained closeted forever had it not been for the fevered devotion of her sister and Mabel Loomis Todd, her brother's mistress. There were others involved, too: her volcanic sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert Dickinson; Susan's daughter; Mabel's daughter; and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, one of Dickinson's mentors.
-- The Washington Post
I haven't read much from Emily Dickinson, and I'm surprised to learn that she was barely discovered, which is the kind of literary romance that most touches me, and perhaps a lot of bloggers, heh, the great writer writing away in obscurity. |
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