#he doesn't like. explicitly say 'emily dickinson was super heterosexual' or whatever

[arielmagicesi]

I'm reading a biography of Emily Dickinson, and I picked this specific biography because my host teacher from student observations recommended it, but a previous person who checked it out of the library covered nearly every page in scathing penciled remarks criticizing the author for details of his Dickinson research and it's a weird experience to read as someone who's largely familiar with her work and not her life. Also this is one of those "lol can you imagine being an ahistorical loser who thought Emily was attracted to women? Lesbians weren't invented yet, you silly rumor-believers" books which is slightly exhausting to deal with every time Emily does something that seems kinda gay, which is like every 10 minutes of her life from what I can glean so far. That said, I like getting an immense amount of detail about Dickinson's world and the historical context of transcendentalist-era New England, and I also don't want to DNF this book, and I'm insane and thus convinced that reading every book that a more established teacher recommends will mystically help me be a good teacher and not a clueless dumbass. So here we are