Enjoyed this exploration of the private life of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson - especially the examination of her writing in terms of her illness, family behaviour/personality traits.Found the (forced?) complicity in the "affair" distasteful - the fact that Emily and her sister supported their b...
This is a beautifully written, intensively researched biography of an often misunderstood and greatly underappreciated woman. Lyndall Gordon has the enviable position of being a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford, so she has both the time and the access to apparently every extant scrap of her subj...