The Belle Of Amherst

Author : William Luce
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822233738
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Belle of Amherst written by William Luce and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce’s classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson’s secluded life.

Author : Elizabeth A. Petrino
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874519075
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries written by Elizabeth A. Petrino and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary examination of the poet, her milieu, and the ways she and her contemporaries freed their work from cultural limitations.

Author : Julie Dobrow
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249271
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet written by Julie Dobrow and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the extraordinary mother and daughter who brought Emily Dickinson’s genius to light. Despite Emily Dickinson’s world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication—Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham—has remained in the shadows of the archives. A rich and compelling portrait of women who refused to be confined by the social mores of their era, After Emily explores Mabel and Millicent’s complex bond, as well as the powerful literary legacy they shared. Mabel’s tangled relationships with the Dickinsons—including a thirteen-year extramarital relationship with Emily’s brother, Austin—roiled the small town of Amherst, Massachusetts. After Emily’s death, Mabel’s connection to the family and reputation as an intelligent, artistic, and industrious woman in her own right led her to the enormous trove of poems Emily left behind. So began the herculean task of transcribing, editing, and promoting Emily’s work, a task that would consume and complicate the lives of both Mabel and her daughter. As the popularity of the poems grew, legal issues arose between the Dickinson and Todd families, dredging up their scandals: the affair, the ownership of Emily’s poetry, and the right to define the so-called "Belle of Amherst." Utilizing hundreds of overlooked letters and diaries to weave together the stories of three unstoppable women, Julie Dobrow explores the intrigue of Emily Dickinson’s literary beginnings. After Emily sheds light on the importance of the earliest editions of Emily’s work—including the controversial editorial decisions made to introduce her singular genius to the world—and reveals the surprising impact Mabel and Millicent had on the poet we know today.

Author : Nuala O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143192477
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Emily written by Nuala O'Connor and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award Emily Dickinson’s life is reimagined in her own voice and through eyes of a young Irish maid—an enchanting novel in the spirit of Longbourn and Mrs. Poe Ada Concannon’s first day in America is a success. She’s the new maid for the respected but eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Despite the differences in age and class, eighteen-year-old Ada, “a neat little Irish person, fresh off the boat,” strikes up a deep freindship with Miss Emily, the gifted elder daughter living a spinster’s life at home. Emily is a bastion of support as Ada struggles to find her place in this new world, while Ada’s toil gives Emily the freedom she needs to write. But Emily’s passion for words begins to dominate her life. She decides to wear nothing but white and increasingly avoids the outside world. When Ada’s safety and reputation are threatened, however, Emily faces down her own demons in order to help her friend, with shocking consequences.

Author : Brenda Wineapple
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307456307
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Heat written by Brenda Wineapple and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public. As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary figure who ran guns to Kansas and commanded the first Union regiment of black soldiers. When Dickinson sent Higginson four of her poems he realized he had encountered a wholly original genius; their intense correspondence continued for the next quarter century. In White Heat Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, one that sheds new light on her subjects and on the roiling America they shared.

Author : Aife Murray
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656746
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maid as Muse written by Aife Murray and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

Author : William Luce
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573642401
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barrymore written by William Luce and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Plummer won a Tony for his portrayal of John Barrymore in the acclaimed Broadway production of this work by the master of one-character biographies for the stage.

Author : William Luce
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573691683
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Flapper written by William Luce and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Luce Biographical Monologue Character: 1 female Interior Set Based on her letters and stories, this exciting play is the definitive portrait of Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald: the glamorous, fun loving and tragic Zelda. As in The Belle of Amherst, Lucifer's Child and Bronte, Luce reveals the contradictions and mysteries of an extraordinary woman while fashioning a moving yet witty play. Set in an insane asylum on the last day of Zelda's life, the

Author : Polly Longsworth
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558492158
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austin and Mabel written by Polly Longsworth and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true tale of illicit love in the era of Emily Dickinson. The author adds her own annotations to correspondence, journals, diaries and the observations of the protagonists' peers, to paint a detailed picture of social and sexual mores in 19th-century America.

Author : Páraic Finnerty
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare written by Páraic Finnerty and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through analysis of letters, journals, diaries, records, periodicals, newspapers, and marginalia, Finnerty juxtaposes Dickinson's engagement with Shakespeare with the responses of her contemporaries. Her Shakespeare emerges as an immoral dramatist and highly moral poet; a highbrow symbol of class and cultivation and a lowbrow popular entertainer; an impetus behind the emerging American theater criticism and an English author threatening American creativity; a writer culturally approved for women and yet one whose authority women often appropriated to critique their culture. Such a context allows the explication of Dickinson's specific references to Shakespeare and further conjecture about how she most likely read him."--BOOK JACKET.