Emily Dickinson

Did you know?

• Dickinson rarely left her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts in her later years, often communicating with friends and neighbours only through letters and notes.
• Only around ten of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime — most without her knowledge or consent, and heavily edited by others.
• She had a habit of writing poems on any paper within reach: envelopes, paper bags, and the backs of grocery lists, often stitching small bundles together with thread.
• Her unconventional style — slant rhyme, dashes instead of punctuation, irregular capitalisation — puzzled publishers for decades. Her poems weren't published in their original form until 1955, nearly 70 years after her death.