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Was Emily Dickinson gay

Updated: 3/23/2024
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10y ago

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No one knows for sure if Emily Dickinson was gay or bisexual but it has certainly been suggested by many scholars. The book Open Me Carefully shows the passionate (yet not obviously sexual) romantic letters between Dickinson and her sister in law, raising speculation about her sexual orientation. There are several men that had a strong influence on her intellectually and emotionally, which experts believe could also have been love interests, the source of some of the unrequited longing her poems express. It's not clear overall, but it's doubtful that so many scholars would raise this speculation if there wasn't at least some cause for it.

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Emily Dickinson's sexuality is still a subject of speculation and debate among scholars. Some believe that she may have had romantic relationships with women based on her correspondence and poems, while others argue that there is not enough evidence to definitively label her as gay. Ultimately, it remains unclear and open to interpretation.

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People have speculated, based on letters that she wrote to another woman, that she was in love with this woman. She very well may have been.

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