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The Smell of Tansy through the Dark
- The Massachusetts Review
- Massachusetts Review, Inc.
- Volume 61, Number 1, 2020
- pp. 29-37
- 10.1353/mar.2020.0005
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
An essay interweaving a biography of Edna St.Vincent Millay (specifically 1921–1923) and her pregnancies with a study of women’s reproductive health in the early 20th Century. The essay evaluates how Millay’s poems explore a woman’s choice in her potential motherhood.