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Title: Outing Emily
Review: This book is part of the new movement to out nineteenth-century figures such as Emily Dickinson and Abraham Lincoln, due to a profound misunderstanding of nineteenth-century culture and the sexual mores of that time.There was no stigma attached to deep interpersonal relationships between friends of the same sex at that time in history, and to attach sexual undertones or overtones to these relationships is to attach a lurid agenda to innocent relationships.Low self-image has driven this coterie of authors to attempt to justify their own perceived self-loathing by outing innocent public figures such as Dickinson and Lincoln.Who is next, we wonder? Jesus? He did hang out with a bunch of guys after all.
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