Back in July (2010) I kept receiving tweets concerning poet Emily Dickinson. Considering I hadn't read her works since well high school/college I couldn't figure out what the renewed interest in her could be about. As it turns out a new biography claims that she had epilepsy and it was causing quite a stir.
Ah ha,,,found the article, it was archived,,,Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy
"A week after Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her younger sister Lavinia opened drawers in the reclusive poet's bedroom and found a veritable treasure trove: nearly 1,800 poems, meticulously crafted by Dickinson during her lifetime.
But the discovery of the poems set off a multi-generational family feud within the Dickinson family over the poet's posthumous publication and her legacy. Writer Lyndall Gordon, a senior research fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, describes the fight between Dickinson's sister-in-law Susan, and Susan's husband's mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd, in a new biography of Dickinson, Lives Like Loaded Guns.
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