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Ancestors' brocades : the literary debut of Emily Dickinson / by Millicent Todd Bingham.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932.
- Todd, Mabel Loomis.
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
- Local Subjects:
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack L. (autograph) (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 464 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- Literary debut of Emily Dickinson
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1945.
- Contents:
- Dramatis personae
- Preliminaries
- Creative editing
- The poems reach the printer
- The "auction"
- continued
- Flying sparks
- Momentum
- Preparation of "Poems", second series
- The second "auction"
- Collecting the letters
- From the wings
- Doubts and difficulties
- Emily's correspondents
- The "Letters" in press
- Publication of the "Letters"
- Interlude
- "Poems", third series
- The lawsuit
- A Pyrrhic victory
- Aftermath
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- T.p. printed in black and red.
- "First Edition C-U"--T.p. verso.
- "This book is complete and unabridged in contents, and is manufactured in strict conformity with Government regulations for saving paper."
- "Set in Linotype Bakerville. Format by A. W. Rushmore."--Colophon.
- "Early reviews of books by Emily Dickinson, 1890-1896," pages 406-411; "Books by Emily Dickinson, a partial list of editions of books brought out by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wenthworth Higginson," pages 412-415.
- Early book reviews of Emily Dickinson, p. 406-411.
- Books by Emily Dickinson; partial list of editions of books brought out by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, p. 412-415.
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy has autograph of J. Capps, Rm. 169, Thayer Hall.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968. Ancestors' brocades.
- OCLC:
- 272017
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