User:Mdesai6/Lesbian erasure
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[edit]Emily Dickinson is a highly regarded American poet. Her sexuality has been discussed for many years. Her poems are often to and about her best friend and sister-in-law Susan Gilbert. In recent years, Apple TV+ produced a show titled Dickinson that details her life when writing some of her most famous poems and her intimate relationship with Gilbert.
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The Museum of Emily Dickinson is ambiguous when it comes to discussing her sexuality.[1] However, her relationship with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert, has caused some academics to assert that she was a lesbian.[2] Professors Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith wrote that Gilbert was a muse to Dickinson, stating that "Emily's correspondence to Susan unequivocally acknowledges that their emotional, spiritual, and physical communion is vital to her creative insight and sensibilities." [3] While The Museum of Emily Dickinson continues to profit off of the ideas of ambiguity and uncertainty regarding Dickinson's sexuality, Apple TV+ produced the show Dickinson that shows that lesbian figures exist throughout history but have been erased. Dickinson creator Alena Smith described Dickinson's sexuality as "fluid or queer, but I think that can mean a lot of different things." [4]
- ^ Bartram, Robin; Brown-Saracino, Japonica; Donovan, Holly (2021-01-18). "Uncertain Sexualities and the Unusual Woman: Depictions of Jane Addams and Emily Dickinson". Social Problems. 68 (1): 168–184. doi:10.1093/socpro/spz058. ISSN 0037-7791.
- ^ Comment, Kristin M. (2009). ""Wasn't She a Lesbian?" Teaching Homoerotic Themes in Dickinson and Whitman". The English Journal. 98 (4): 61–66. ISSN 0013-8274.
- ^ Dickinson, Emily (1998). Open me carefully : Emily Dickinson's intimate letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Ellen Louise Hart, Martha Nell Smith, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1st ed.). Ashfield, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-9638183-6-8. OCLC 39746998.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kupfer, Lindsey (2019-10-31). "'Dickinson' creator explores Emily Dickinson's sexuality". Page Six. Retrieved 2022-10-04.