11 July 2020: "The Reverend Wadsworth, an oddball of the first order, thrilled parishioners with his overheated theatrics: he had a trapdoor cut into the pulpit floor so he might appear and disappear with having to mingle with his congregation..." --Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Finally getting around to reading this book, which has sat on one of my nightstands for years, in preparation for a seminar on Dickinson this fall. So far, it's great read, in no small part for the lovely (and weird!) details like the one quoted above.
I am not surprised, since I've enjoyed Wineapple's writing before.
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