when she fell in love with [Otis Phillips] Lord, the judge's niece remembered her as a 'little hussy': 'Loose morals . . . She was crazy about men. Even tried to get Judge Lord. Insane too.'We're still a way away, I think, from a general view of Emily Dickinson as a boy-crazed trollop: but by moving the general view a little way in that direction Lyndall Gordon has, oddly enough, done this great poet a favour.
from The Spectator: Not 'a boy-crazed trollop'
also San Diego Gay & lesbian News: Was Emily Dickinson gay?
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