Amherst
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Amherst
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- Label
- Amherst
- Statement of responsibility
- William Nicholson
- Title variation
- Reckless
- Subject
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- trueScreenwriters
- FICTION / Literary
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueLove
- Love stories
- trueLove stories
- trueMarried men
- trueMen/women relations
- trueParallel narratives
- truePoets, American -- 19th century
- trueScandals -- Amherst, Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century
- trueScreenplay writing
- Screenwriters -- Fiction
- Women poets, American -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueAcademicians
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Amherst (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueAmherst, Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century
- trueBiographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueBiographical films
- trueCollege teachers' spouses
- trueDickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Fiction
- trueExtramarital affairs
- FICTION / General
- FICTION / Historical
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Alice Dickinson is a young advertising executive who works in London and dreams of becoming a screenwriter. She decides to take some time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of a scandalous adulterous love affair that took place in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the 1880s. The lovers were a young faculty wife at Amherst College, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's senior and married, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and their trysts took place in Emily's house (with her consent). Alice travels to Amherst, staying in the house of a friend of a friend, Nick Crocker, a married English academic in his fifties. As Alice researches the affair between Austin and Mabel, and puzzles out Emily Dickinson's role, she embarks on an affair with Nick, an affair that, of course, they both know echoes the affair that she's writing about in her screenplay. Interspersed with Alice's own complicated love story is the story she is telling of Austin and Mabel, historically accurate, and meticulously recreated from their voluminous letters and diaries. Using the poems of Emily Dickinson throughout, Amherst is an exploration of the nature of passionate love, its delusions, and its glories
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6064.I235
- LC item number
- A82 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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