It has been generally assumed that, an unmarried woman in nineteenth-century western Massachusetts, Dickinson had little direct acquaintance either with sex or with the sea. Among other things, this may be to say that we do not understand what “direct acquaintance” could mean or involve. (And recent decades have brought increased speculations about a possible sex life.)

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