"little Tippler..."

15 June 2023: Working on my entry on the temperance movement and this made me laugh: “The Dickinson sisters made wine together that they would drink with family and friends at the same time that their father was publicly supporting the temperance movement” (24). Worth remembering, of course, that temperance and abstinence weren't/aren't the same thing, but it's still funny. 

Post's title comes from Dickinson's best-known poem that invokes alcohol.

Works Cited

Young, Jake. “Dissolving Metaphors in Emily Dickinson’s Poems about Drink.” The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, 2019, pp. 23–42. Project Muse.