Bitchy Little Spinster
Joanne O’Leary: Queens of Amherst, 3 June 2021
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,978 0 393 35749 3 Show More
by Julie Dobrow.
Norton, 448 pp., £13.99, January 2020,
“... the ‘solitary spinster’, which provoked the ire of later feminist critics such as Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith. ‘The most marketable image of Dickinson the poet,’ they wrote in Open Me Carefully (1998), ‘was that of the eccentric, reclusive, asexual woman in white.’ But it’s equally true that Dickinson played that role well enough when ... ”
