The Love Life Of Emily Dickinson (Really!)
In the popular imagination, Emily Dickinson "is forever the lovelorn spinster, pining away in her father's mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Mass. ... Her exile on Main Street has seemed a necessary part of the Dickinson myth, so necessary, indeed, that contrary information--which happens to have been piling up lately--has often been discounted or ignored." Slate 10/09/08

Posted October 10, 2008 05:26 AM