CONTENTS

I: A POET NEXT DOOR

II: ‘A STILL — VOLCANO — LIFE’

1. The First Family

2. A Scientific Education

3. Sister

4. ‘Wife Without the Sign’

5. ‘Snarl in the Brain’

6. Telling

7. Romancing Judge Lord

8. Split in the Family

III: MABEL’S REIGN

9. Emily’s Stand

10. Lady Macbeth of Amherst

11. Mabel in Excelsis

IV: THE WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSES

12. Lavinia’s Stand

13. The Trial

14. Defeats of the First Generation

15. Two Daughters

16. The Battle of the Daughters

17. Posthumous Campaigns

V: OUTLIVING THE LEGEND

Sources

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Index of First Lines