A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade

Publication Data

• Title A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
• Author Christopher E. G. Benfey
• Publisher Penguin Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

A tea rose
The prodigal
Beecher's pockets
Tristes tropiques
At the Hotel Byron
The prisoner of Chillon
Birds of passage
Covert flowers, hidden nests
Transits of Venus
Foggy bottom
A route of evanescence
Florida.

Topics

• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Women and literature :: United States :: History :: 19th century
• Literature and society :: United States :: History :: 19th century
• Literature and history :: United States :: History :: 19th century
• Florida :: In art
• United States :: History :: 1865-1898
• Florida
• United States

A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher E. G. Benfey. ISBN 9781594201608. Published by Penguin Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.