Talk:Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

Improving this article
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to improve this article?

Jalittle90 (talk) 20:21, 11 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I've noticed quite a bit of copy-paste from Marth Nell Smith's essay Susan and Emily Dickinson: their lives in letters in the Cambridge Companion. For example, the whole of the last sentence commencing "A powerful intellectual" in the section "Public view of Susan" is copied word for word from p. 82. Similarly the whole of the last paragraph from "Epistolary relationship" is copied directly from p. 67, and there are other examples. Although the essay itself is sourced, none of these obvious quotations are cited, so really we must consider these copyright violations. I think the editors involved were no doubt well meaning, but really there should be a rewrite here (which unfortunately I can't volunteer). KIC 8462852 (talk) 00:04, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed the end of that "Public view" section down considerably to The limits placed on women's literary and artistic contributions to society in the nineteenth century caused Susan Dickinson's crucial forty-year relationship with her sister-in-law to become contested and controversial, along with her personality and life story. 2603:7080:EF43:B000:EC0D:8F6E:94F5:F010 (talk) 15:45, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Agree with this. I came here just to say the particular sentence cited above sounded like personal opinion and needed removed or to have a citation added. Dakinijones (talk) 11:32, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Sex
Although it is true that modern biography can obsess about sex too much, this article omits her husband Austin's affair with Mabel Loomis Todd and while allegations of a lesbian affair with Emily may well be way off the mark I think we cannot ignore that they have been made - see New York Review of Books- Christopher Bentley - The Mystery of Emily Dickinson (April 8th 1999) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.131.178.175 (talk) 22:07, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

"Dickinson"
The bare surname is used several times in this article, apparently meaning Emily. This would be fine in an article on Emily herself or on anyone else not bearing the same surname. Normally the use of just the surname of the subject of an article refers to the subject, not to anyone else, no matter how much more famous the other person may be. The phrase Dickinson circle may be taken as including both women; otherwise Emily's first name should always be used in this article when she is the one intended. Koro Neil (talk) 03:03, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

In popular culture
I feel like someone should add “in popular culture” section to this article since she’s featured as a character and in retellings often. Elttaruuu (talk) 22:26, 27 April 2023 (UTC)