Bibliograph

Amherst, a novel, William Nicholson

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Amherst, a novel, William Nicholson

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Amherst

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Oclc number

900424555

Responsibility statement

William Nicholson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair that took place between a young Amherst college faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's senior and married, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, whose house provided the setting for Austin and Mabel's trysts

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