This dramatization of Emily Dickinson's life is made with the express purpose of debunking all the tired myths that the 19th century Massachusetts poet was a joyless recluse, not interested in being published, and heterosexual. Indeed, the film asserts, over and over, that Dickinson's 40-year relationship with her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson was fully loving and sexual, all the… read more!