Tuesday, August 24, 2010

News at Eleven: [Lyndall] Gordon handles the intricate telling well,

provoking sympathy for Martha Dickinson and Millicent Todd, the two daughters left to carry on their mothers' anguished war.

Even an avid reader wonders, however, will this story ever end?

Actually, it hasn't. Venture to the Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Mass., now a museum, or onto the Web, and one finds supporters of one faction or the other still engaged in active sniping.

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: A different sort of Emily Dickinson, epileptic too

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