Taggard Divorces Robert L. Wolf
Poet involved
What happened
In 1934, Genevieve Taggard and Robert L. Wolf divorced after thirteen years of marriage. The separation, which took place in New York, ended a partnership that had been both creatively stimulating and personally difficult, and it freed Taggard to pursue a new relationship and a fresh phase of her career.
Literary impact
The divorce marked a turning point in Taggard's personal life and her poetry, as she moved away from the introspective love lyrics of her early work toward more overtly political and socially engaged themes. The experience of failed marriage also deepened her understanding of women's struggles for autonomy, a subject she would treat with increasing nuance in her later collections.
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