Megan’s Reviews > 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women > Status Update

Because of rumors surrounding her quirky spinster life and her first editor’s encouragement of this image in when editing her poems, “Dickinson became stereotyped as an ethereal, eccentric soul, neurotic or worse, the proverbial ‘mad woman in the attic’ - or rather bedroom, where she shrewdly retreated to labor at her art.”