He treated Mary 'with particular kindness and attention', had a long conversation
with her, and asked her to come 'often'. ... Wollstonecraft, like Johnson, trusted the
reader; both shunned obscurities; both were devout common Anglicans; ...
Biography & Autobiography
Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
February 2010
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After her death the fight for possession of Emily and her poetry became the feud's focus. 'Lives Like Loaded Guns has cracked one of poetry's most enduring enigmas . . .
Biography & Autobiography
Charlotte Bronte A Passionate Life
December 2009
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In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who ...
