Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord

The true identity of Emily Dickinson’s great love has been eagerly sought for a century or more. In Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first full-length work to solve this puzzle based wholly on documented facts and the poet’s own writings. He identifies the lover as Otis Lord, a friend of the poet’s father, and portrays the broad dimensions of their clandestine thirty-year romance. Supporting evidence is provided in a lengthy section of Notes and Sources.

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Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord

The true identity of Emily Dickinson’s great love has been eagerly sought for a century or more. In Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first full-length work to solve this puzzle based wholly on documented facts and the poet’s own writings. He identifies the lover as Otis Lord, a friend of the poet’s father, and portrays the broad dimensions of their clandestine thirty-year romance. Supporting evidence is provided in a lengthy section of Notes and Sources.

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Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord

Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord

by John Evangelist Walsh
Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord

Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord

by John Evangelist Walsh

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The true identity of Emily Dickinson’s great love has been eagerly sought for a century or more. In Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first full-length work to solve this puzzle based wholly on documented facts and the poet’s own writings. He identifies the lover as Otis Lord, a friend of the poet’s father, and portrays the broad dimensions of their clandestine thirty-year romance. Supporting evidence is provided in a lengthy section of Notes and Sources.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813553375
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 05/16/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 6 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

JOHN EVANGELIST WALSH is the author of numerous books of biography and history, including biographies of Emily Dickinson, John Keats, and Robert Frost as well as two well-received works on Abraham Lincoln. He has three times been a finalist for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, winning once for Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind "The Mystery of Marie Roget." His book The Shadows Rise: AbrahamLincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend was a finalist for the prestigious Gettysburg Prize.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Prologue: A Puzzlement

Part I. The Unmasking
1. Twenty Old Letters: A Reconstructed Episode
2. The Wildest Word
3. The Knee That Bore Her Once
4. Oh Gaudy Heart!

Part II. The Love Affair
5. Hunting for the Day
6. Bridal Gown
7. Basking in Bethlehem
8. Aetherial Throng

Acknowledgments
Appendices
A. Mrs. Lord's Diary
B. The Master Letters
C. The Last White Dress
Notes and Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index
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