by Lyndall Gordon · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670021932
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«Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds» is the biography of Emily Dickinson by Lyndall Gordon (Viking, hardcover, 491 pages, English).
In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, began an affair with Mabel Todd, wife of an Amherst professor, and the relationship sparked a family feud that lasted more than a century. Lyndall Gordon reconstructs the story from letters, diaries and legal documents, presenting Emily not as the recluse of popular imagination, but as a woman who sought love and spiritual fulfillment on her own terms.
The volume includes bibliographical references (pages 407-470) and indexes. It was a finalist for the Duff Cooper Prize.
For readers of literary biographies and for admirers of Emily Dickinson and nineteenth-century American poetry.
Lyndall Gordon is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
