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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,978 0 393 35749 3 Show More
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,
“... work first appeared in 1890 in a volume co-edited by Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Julie Dobrow’s After Emily attempts to rescue Todd’s reputation by offsetting her bad behaviour against the extraordinary labour she devoted to transcribing, editing and promoting Dickinson’s work. It also chronicles the trials of her ... ”