-- Intellectual life -- 19th century Publisher New York : Viking Completely riveting! This is a great, great book. From that point on a struggle over who had the rights to publish and "own" Emily's work ensued that continues. I knew from reading E's poetry that she was no posy-holding wallflower, but Gordon rounds Emily out, into a three-dimensional woman who is a passionate, wily, genius. Lives Like Loaded Guns. view in app. Previously I'd read her biographies of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, and because I knew her study of Emily Dickinson would be informative I began Lives Like Loaded Guns with an avid, keen eye. view in app. . About Lives Like Loaded Guns “Lives Like Loaded Guns…reads like a fabulous detective story…[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory.”—The Washington Post A great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson and the new series Dickinson. She was far more fierce than we’ve been led to believe, which makes perfect sense given the work she left behind.” –The Barnes & Noble Review, reprinted in Salon.com, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. An enthralling story of creative genius, filled with illicit passion and betrayal, Lives Like Loaded Guns is sure to cause a stir among Dickinson's many devoted readers and scholars. In the U.S. she is published by Norton and Johns Hopkins Press; in China largely by Shanghai Literature & Art. The Learning Store. Its strength and weakness is that it is really two books in one. Gordon is primarily concerned with how the tangled relationships of the Dickinson family , namely Austin Dickinson's adulterous affair with Mabel Loomis Todd,affected the legacy and myth of the poet, the consequences of which are still felt today. Gordon chronicles the family feud which began in E.D's lifetime, resulting in two camps: the Todds, supported by Austin Dickinson, and Austin's wife Susan and their children. More By and About This Author. For the first half of Lives Like Loaded Guns, Gordon focuses on Emily Dickinson’s story, and she puts forward one major new claim: Based on medical records and … Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. This fascinating biography will inspire readers to return to Dickinson’s vastly rich poems and letters – and it’s her work for which she should be remembered, after all.” –Newsday “The story that preoccupies Ms. Gordon, [is] one of illicit love and intellectual property rights… Few portraits of Emily Dickinson are as vivid, few explorations of a family feud more riveting…Through the use of letters, diaries and legal documents, Ms. Gordon sheds light on the Emily Dickinson of public perception (“a harmless homebody”) and its fallacies, the secret she most likely carried and the costs of families split over possession.” –The Washington Times “Lives Like Loaded Guns reads like page-turning fiction, but is grounded in Gordon’s masterful use of historical archives. Erased, the “harmless homebody…shut off from life.” And in their place a strange, seething creature filled with passion whose life was, in some fundamental sense, an exercise in control…It’s what Gordon does with the poetry that is most compelling. It is a worthy monument to a poet even more extraordinary than we realised' Olivia Cole, Financial Times. by Lyndall Gordon Wanda McCaddon Audiobook. Get this from a library! Refresh and try again. An enthralling story of creative genius, filled with illicit passion and betrayal, Lives Like Loaded Guns is sure to cause a stir among Dickinson's many devoted readers, listeners, and scholars. | ISBN 9780143119142 -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Publisher New York : Viking Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; oliverwendellholmeslibrary; phillipsacademy; americana Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin … Gordon shows that Dickinson used her correspondence as so many "lassoes" to grapple kindred spirits to her. Its strength and weakness is that it is really two books in one. Gordon, a gifted storyteller, charts the ugly family dramas not to exploit them, but to prove how truly damaging they were to the poet's legacy . PUBLISHERS WEEKLY APR 19, 2010. Once Emily died her papers ended up divided between Mabel (the other woman) and Sue (Emily's best friend and Austin's wife). Lives Like Loaded Guns. The poetry it fueled,” she advises, “must be seen in terms of New England individualism, the Emersonian ethos of self-reliance which in its fullest bloom eludes classification. Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Kindle Book. In Lives Like Loaded Guns , she entertains fresh interpretations of the poet''s life...Viewing the poet through the lens of 19th-century spin doctors is fresh and provocative." I knew next to nothing about Emily Dickinson, when I came across this fascinating-looking work in a charity shop! Determined to … If you think a novel about a staid 19th-century New England family—including an sickly maiden poet daughter—torn apart by a swinging couple, its wife seducing the married brother while the spinster poet writes and writes and glowers—the married woman largely responsible in the most vindictive of ways for establishing the poet’s posthumous fame—sounds good, well this literary biography of Emily Dickinson and her feuding family is for you. "Lives Like Loaded Guns is a remarkable achievement that deconstructs the image of Dickinson so entrenched in literary history. Much of this book leaves Emily herself lost in the background as the focus shifts to family and others -- and what happens once Emily is dead. 40% Off. Gone, the disappointed spinster with some ophthalmic abnormality. Publication date 2010 Topics Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family, Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships, Amherst (Mass.) It was interesting to read of the falling-out between two families who then continued their feud through generations of fighting over control of Emily Dickinson's fame and life story. I have this on a nature-themed print from Hobby Lobby hanging in my bathroom. Confined as she was by her condition and the constraints of a woman’s life, family was everything to Emily. Regarding her brother Austin's adulterous. Gordon, a gifted storyteller, charts the ugly family dramas not to exploit them, but to prove how truly damaging they were to the poet's legacy . Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds Lyndall Gordon Virago, 512pp, £20. Lives Like Loaded Guns reveals a deeply dimensional woman with a range of moods, not the delicate and dutiful dreamer of the myth. [Lyndall Gordon] -- Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson's poems were published, her death revealed 1,800 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. A comprehensive and riveting biography of Emily Dickinson, though she dies midway through the book. And it is fascinating to read how terribly far slander and distortion took people in their greed to 'own' Dickinson's writing. “Lives Like Loaded Guns…reads like a fabulous detective story…[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory.” —The Washington Post A great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson and the new series Dickinson. It rescues Dickinson from the image of the passive, heart-broken recluse. Mabel--a married woman--began an affair with her husband's blessing with Austin Dickinson and it tore their family apart. It will disappoint those who only want a Dickinson bio or an examination of her poetry. Preview Now; Preview saved; Save Preview; View Synopsis #625 in Biography & Memoir, Literary #2434 in Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States #8181 in Biography & Memoir; Buy the eBook. 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