Sexuality of Emily Dickinson

}} The sexuality of Emily Dickinson is a topic of dispute. It has been argued that she may have been bisexual or fundamentally homosexual.

Dickinson's possible romantic and [...] adventures are matters of great controversy among her biographers and critics. There is little evidence on which to base a conclusion about the objects of her affection, though Dickinson's understanding of passion can be inferred through some of her poems and letters.

Attention has focused especially on a group of letters addressed only to "Master", known as the Master letters, in which Dickinson appears to be writing to a male lover; neither the addressee of these letters, nor whether they were sent, has been established. Some biographers have been convinced Dickinson might have been romantically involved with the newspaper publisher Samuel Bowles, a friend of her father's, Judge Otis Lord, or a minister named Charles Wadsworth.

Some biographers have theorized Dickinson may have had romantic attachments to women in her younger