Taggard Begins Teaching at Mount Holyoke College
Poet involved
What happened
From 1929 to 1931, Genevieve Taggard served as an instructor in English at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The position provided her with a stable income and academic community while she completed her biography of Emily Dickinson, which appeared in 1930.
Literary impact
Teaching at Mount Holyoke immersed Taggard in the academic study of literature and refined her skills as a close reader and critic. The steady employment allowed her the financial security to write, and the college's environment—steeped in the legacy of Dickinson—inspired her biographical work, which in turn deepened her appreciation for Dickinson's compressed, metaphysical style.
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