This Brief Tragedy
unraveling the Todd-Dickinson affair
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1991 - G. Weidenfeld, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1533243M
- ISBN-139780802111197
- ISBN-10080211119X
- OCLC Control Number23382562
- OCLC Control Numberthisbrieftragedy00wals
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number91010945
- Goodreads948520
- LibraryThing2763311
Classifications
- DDC811/.4
- LCCPS1541.Z5 W27 1991
Description
Dear cousins, Called back. Emily. Why did Emily Dickinson write this cryptic note to her spinster cousins just before she died? In this arresting, even startling re-evaluation of the poet's final years -- and her posthumous career -- John Evangelist Walsh examines the effect of several tragedies that struck Dickinson in the last four years of her life: the illicit love affair between her brother, Austin, and a young married woman, Mabel Todd; the deaths of her nephew Gilbert and her adored Judge Otis Lord (who may have been the "Master" of her middle years); and the Bright's disease that made her an invalid. The combination of these afflictions, Walsh demonstrates, may have led Emily to take her own life. - Jacket flap.
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