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Ancestors' brocades : the literary debut of Emily Dickinson /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968 (Author)
Corporate Author: Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1945.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886.
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation.
CHR 1956.
PRO Capps, Jack L. (autograph) (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
Dickinson, Emily > 1830-1886
Dickinson, Emily.
Biography
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Dramatis personae
  • Preliminaries
  • Creative editing
  • The poems reach the printer
  • The "auction"
  • The "auction"
  • continued
  • Flying sparks
  • Momentum
  • Preparation of "Poems", second series
  • The second "auction"
  • Collecting the letters
  • From the wings
  • Doubts and difficulties
  • Emily's correspondents
  • The "Letters" in press
  • Publication of the "Letters"
  • Interlude
  • "Poems", third series
  • The lawsuit
  • A Pyrrhic victory
  • Aftermath
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices.