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contract had stipulated shared rights. (It’s not known whether Todd made this up because she felt it her due, or whether Lavinia had spurred her on with expectations.)

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In the novel The Hours there’s a similar banal contrast where a distorted image of Virginia Woolf’s demented genius is set off by a sister who shops - an image of a normal woman as obedient consumer.

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Eliot too plays on the brutal hilarity of cartoons when his potentially murderous Sweeney tests a razor on his leg in the brothel setting of ‘Sweeney Erect’.

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Mattie’s contribution was to remove all the invented titles to poems and restore an occasional word from manuscript. She told herself that these necessary measures amounted to ‘re-editing’, for like Aunt Lavinia she underrated what editing entails.

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The legend’s spread was out of proportion to modest sales of only 2500 copies.

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Samuel Eliot Morrison was a relative and, later, an admirer of T. S. Eliot.

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A cousin of Morton Fullerton, the lover of Edith Wharton and friend of Henry James. Mrs Gerald had been at one time engaged to the philandering Fullerton.

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In 1931 Mabel bought a carton of Roberts Brothers archives, which had been thrown out as waste paper for the mills but salvaged by a book hunter. The carton contained the whole of the Dickinson publishing papers, including the draft and final contracts in 1894.

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Baby Bowles was named Charles, which coincidentally was Wadsworth’s name. In fact, as we know, ED had wished the baby to be called Robert.

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Mount Desert Island.

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Edited by their granddaughter Theodora Ward.

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The lawyer in Bleak House.

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An ornament of crystal drops in the shape of tears.

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The equivalent of about $550,000 or £360,000 in today’s terms, though the buying power would differ.

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A common complication of cirrhosis of the liver is damage to the throat, resulting in haemorrhage.

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The Loomises had lived in College Hill Terrace (now part of Belmont Street) in the Adams Morgan area of North-West Washington.

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Mary Hampson’s Boston lawyer, Mr Dow, commented in 1960 that the other copy of the final 1894 contract, the publisher’s copy, which Mabel Todd bought from the New York dealer in 1931, had ‘probably been destroyed’ - that is, by the Todd camp.

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The embossed queen appears above the ‘M’ of ‘Master’ in the final Master letter and also in the booklets.

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Scarlet dye.

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Royal blue.