s of her life she retreated to a smaller and smaller circle of friends and family. She communicated with friends through cryptic notes and fragments of poems. She was essentially unknown as a poet when she died--her fame would come much later with the publication of her works, and only seven of her poems were printed in her lifetime, all of them anonymously (Baym, Gottesman, Holland, Kalstone, Murphy, Parker, Pritchard, and Wallace 1093-1094).
Sylvia Plath's life was not so circumscribed physically, but psychologically she was tortured and enclosed in a way that Emily Dickinson was not. She was much more explicit about the stereotyping of women in the 1950s, not only
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