PrefacexiIIntroduction31Mabel and David Todd92Susan and Austin Dickinson67IIThe Letters1The Mutual Discovery: September 1882-December 18831272Amuasbteiln: 18841793A New Epoch: 1885-18862014Menage a Trois: 1887-18892585The Publication of Emily Dickinson's Poems: 1890-18933346The End of Austin's Life: 1894-1895379IIIEpilogueThe Law Suit and the Trial: 1896-1898399Bibliography429Acknowledgments433Index435
\ New York Review of BooksOne of the most explosive books ever published about social and sexual mores in nineteenth-century America.\ \