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Dickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson’s poems out of the shadows 

When she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of paper. She also left behind three formidable women: her steadfast sister, Lavinia; her brother’s ambitious mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd; and his grief-stricken wife, Susan Gilbert Dickinson. With no clear instructions from Emily, these three women would, through mourning and strife, make from those scraps of paper a book that would change American literature.

From the author of Paper Houses, this is the improbable, almost miraculous, story of the birth of a book years after the death of its author. In these

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    Publisher: Coach House Books
    Publication Date: 1/21/2024
    ISBN13: 9781552454688, 978-1552454688
    ISBN10: 1552454681

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    FEATURED ON LITHUB

    CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW

    Dickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson’s poems out of the shadows 

    When she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of paper. She also left behind three formidable women: her steadfast sister, Lavinia; her brother’s ambitious mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd; and his grief-stricken wife, Susan Gilbert Dickinson. With no clear instructions from Emily, these three women would, through mourning and strife, make from those scraps of paper a book that would change American literature.

    From the author of Paper Houses, this is the improbable, almost miraculous, story of the birth of a book years after the death of its author. In these

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