Through a modern lens, it’s clear that the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a disability that could stop him from composing, teaching and writing to extended family.
Over the century that family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in West Cambridge there was a strong queer presence in their home, much of which was documented and preserved for us to study today.
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