Bitchy Little Spinster
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,978 0 393 35749 3 Show More
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,
“... the poems by hand, then typed them up on a borrowed Hammond typewriter. This machine, as Ralph Franklin explained in The Editing of Emily Dickinson (1967), was ‘one of the earliest to have small letters as well as capitals’ and allowed Todd to remain faithful to Dickinson’s idiosyncratic capitalisation. When she was forced to return the Hammond she ... ”