Tuesday, August 26, 2008

News at Eleven: We still don't know why Dickinson elected,

well past her youth, to don only virginal white or--beyond a sense of shared mental and social superiority--what caused the members of her family to cling so tightly to one another. (Vinnie and Emily, the husbandless sisters, spent their entire lives under the parental roof; their lawyer brother, Austin, lived in coffined coldness with his wife, Susan Gilbert, within eyeshot of Emily's bedroom window.)

from The New York Times: Emily's Tryst

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