One of the papers I'm currently working on deals with the role of gossip in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and A Lost Lady by Willa Cather. This poem by Emily Dickinson relates in a small way to what I'm writing about:
The leaves, like women, interchange
Sagacious confidence,
Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of
Portentous inference,
The parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy, -
Inviolable compact
To notoriety.
- Emily Dickinson
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