Bitchy Little Spinster
Joanne O’Leary: Queens of Amherst, 3 June 2021
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,
“... her own husband, David, into powerful university positions and forced him to build her a Queen Anne-style house just across from his family home. After his death she conned his surviving sister, Lavinia, into deeding her some land. But, perhaps most damning of all, Emily Dickinson was hardly cold in the grave when Todd made a bid to edit her poems and ride ... ”