'Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd'


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Books : Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd

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by: Polly Longsworth, Austin Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd See Larger Image Amazon.com's Price: $27.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 5 weeks Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811.4 EAN: 9781558492158 ISBN: 1558492151 Label: University of Massachusetts Press Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 449 Publication Date: 1999-10 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Sales Rank: 1057455 Studio: University of Massachusetts Press Editorial Review: Product Description: A true tale of illicit love in the era of Emily Dickinson. The author adds her own annotations to correspondence, journals, diaries and the observations of the protagonists' peers, to paint a detailed picture of social and sexual mores in 19th-century America. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Steamy story behind the publication of Emily's poetry... Emily Dickinson is often a religious poet, and more often than many think, an erotic one. She is famous for her mysteries and contradictions and elusiveness. She died and left more than l700 poems, many almost indecipherable, and a number of them "uncertainly finished." Her sister Vinnie wanted the works to see print, but could not persuade her brother Austin's wife Sue to get the job done, so she turned to Austin's mistress, Mabel, who was also married. This is the lovers' story, told through 13 ... Read More

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