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...
Further documents will be posted if readers wish. Hunting the invisible Gilbert Imlay is one of the almost impossible challenges of Wollstonecraft biography, but he makes an unexpected appearance in a letter from Wollstonecraft’s husband, William Godwin, to an associate of Imlay’s London agent Mr...