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Article: Emily Dickinson's love life?(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2004
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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard
University Theatre director John Schmor has a tiger by the tail - Emily Dickinson.
Yes, the Emily Dickinson - poet, wisp, reclusive Belle of Amherst who reportedly hid away in her mansion, thinking genteel thoughts and writing sensitive poetry.
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Not so, says Schmor. At least, not according to the portrait painted by Madeleine Olnek in her play ``Wild Nights With Emily.''
This Emily Dickinson, Schmor insists, is different - ``a woman very much of the world, fantastically alive to people she cared about.''
One person she cared deeply about was Susan Huntington ...