Maid as muse :
how servants changed Emily Dickinson's life and language /
Aífe Murray.
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| Summary: | The author explodes the myth of the isolated genius and presents an intimate, densely realized story of joined lives between Emily Dickinson and her domestic servants. Part scholarly study, part detective story, part personal journey, Murray's book uncovers a world previously unknown: an influential world of Irish immigrant servants and an ethnically rich one of Yankee, English-immigrant, Native American, and African American maids and laborers, seamstresses and stablemen. Murray reveals how Margaret Maher and the other servants influenced the cultural outlook, fashion, artistic subject, and even poetic style of Emily Dickinson. |
| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, N.H. : Hanover [N.H.] :
University of New Hampshire Press ;
©2009.
University Press of New England, |
| Series: | Revisiting New England.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-290) and index. Physical description: xi, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781584656746 (cloth ; alk. paper) 1584656743 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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GR 6061 |
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Griffin |