This Brief Tragedy Unraveling the Todd-Dickinson Affair

"Dear Cousins, Called back, Emily". Why did Emily Dickinson write this cryptic note to her spinster cousins just before she died? In this arresting, even startling reevaluation of Dickinson's final years, Walsh presents the real story behind the adulterous affair that may have driven Emily Dickinson to suicide. Black-and-white photographs.