unraveling the Todd-Dickinson affair
Edición de la obra This Brief Tragedy
| Autor | John Evangelist Walsh |
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| Editorial | G. Weidenfeld, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated |
| Fecha de publicación | 1991 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 230 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780802111197 |
| ISBN-10 | 080211119X |
| OCLC | 23382562 |
| LCCN | 91010945 |
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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.