Oh yeah, Franklin really, really fails on the queer issues, and also on something that's kind of common to literary biographies -- by the time I finished it, I felt like I knew more about the person than I ever wanted in some respects, but I also had basically no idea how they managed to write what makes them biography-worthy in the first place. Franklin's portrayal of Jackson is very....dominated? Shrinking, almost. Which I guess is bound to happen when the bio focuses so much on her dominating husband.
It's great in that we now have a lot more archival material on Jackson, tho, especially her letters and diaries.
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Date: 2021-02-26 02:55 am (UTC)It's great in that we now have a lot more archival material on Jackson, tho, especially her letters and diaries.