Literary Biographer Lyndall Gordon to Give Annual Barbara Aronstein Black Lecture on Women and Law

New York, November 5, 2009 – Lyndall Gordon, an acclaimed literary biographer, will discuss her new book about poet Emily Dickinson when she gives the Barbara Aronstein Black Lecture on Women and Law at Columbia Law School.

 

The Nov. 9 event centers on Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds, which is set to be published in February. In the book, Gordon recounts the so-called Dickinson feud, which first centered on adultery but later focused on the reclusive poet herself and her legacy.

 

Gordon has won awards for her biographies of such literary figures as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte.

 

The lecture, which is being presented in conjunction with the Columbia University Department of English, is named after Barbara Aronstein Black, George Welwood Murray Professor Emerita of Legal History Dean Emerita of the Law School.

 

The lecture takes place Nov. 9 in Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102, at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

 

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