“I am the Merry Recluse.”
Caroline Knapp
more infosource: “The Merry Recluse: Solitude in the Culture of ‘WE,'” in The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays (New York: Counterpoint, 2004), 286.
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category: introvert, recluse, solitude
medium: Essay
“For the quarter-century that followed, Mrs. [Huguette] Clark lived in the apartment in near solitude, amid a profusion of dollhouses and their occupants. She ate austere lunches of crackers and sardines and watched television, most avidly The Flintstones. A housekeeper kept the dolls’ dresses impeccably ironed.”
Margalit Fox
more infosource: “Huguette Clark, Reclusive Heiress, Dies at 104,” The New York Times, May 24, 2011.
category: dollhouse, Flintstones, heiress, introvert, recluse
medium: Obituary
“Considering her inordinate reclusiveness, who then walked Emily Dickinson’s huge dog?”
David Markson
more infosource: Vanishing Point: A Novel (Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004), 150.
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category: dog, Emily Dickinson, introvert, poet, recluse
medium: fiction
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