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Alice Dickinson, a young advertising exec in London, makes a decision to devote some time off work to analyze her idea for a screenplay: the real story of the scandalous, adulterous romance that occurred between a young, Amherst school faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's mature and committed, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, whose house provided the setting up for Austin and Mabel's trysts. Alice moves to Amherst, staying in the home of Nick Crocker, a committed English academics in his fifties. As Alice researches Austin and Mabel's story and Emily's role in their affair, she embarks on her behalf own affair with Nick, an affair that, of course, they both know echoes the affair that she's authoring in her screenplay.
