Flutterby™! : The Strange Poetry of Immortality

A strange new literary discovery from Slate: Every week for many years, poetess Emily Dickinson's brother Austin dropped by her house, where he screwed Mary Loomis Todd, wife of an Amherst College astronomer, on Emily's couch. The odd thing is that Emily apparently never even met Mrs. Todd; she just stayed upstairs during the assignations, although she must have known what was happening in the parlor. Now this would just be a slightly creepy instance of literary scandal, except that after Emily's death Mary Todd got control of all the poems, edited, and published them, insuring Ms. Dickinson's immortality. Todd is generally considered an excellent and scrupulous editor of the works, but there is good evidence that one of her tasks was to erase any mention of Austin's wife, Sue, from all of the works. Hell might have no fury like a woman scorned, only which is the scorned woman here?