Artemesia, I like the way the historical research is incorporated into your analyses. You may also be interested in the relatively new theory about ED's relationship with Willam Smith Clark. This is the most convincing case I've seen for the identity of the man in her life. Daniela Giosefi has an article setting out the evidence for ED's relationship with William Clark, based on the book in progress by Ruth Owen Jones. It's iin CHELSEA LITERARY REVIEW, Spring 2007. There is also an article here, "Wild Nights: ED and Me": <link>

blahblahblah, thank you for turning us on to the Antonia videos. I also feel that ED would have loved Antonia!!!!! Giosefi, in her Chelsea Literary Review article, uses Jones' research to convey a very different picture of ED than the stereotypical one we all know from the biographies. The ED in this new research is lively and vibrant with a great sense of humor, just as one might suspect from the poems themselves.

Annie