A review by julis
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo by Christopher Benfey

2.0

Okay so 1, you don’t get paid by title length.

2: I badly, badly needed a web of interactions because I very quickly lost track of everyone.

3, Not super clear on the hummingbird thing? As much as he mentions them it’s…weak honestly. 3.5: So is his thesis about the Civil War changing American literature. Or rather the thesis is fine, it’s the support which is weak (to missing completely).

Well written but uh…needs some more content and remembering that not everyone knows who Dickinson’s second cousin twice removed was.