Best known work

• "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", 1890

Other well known work(s)

• "I'm Nobody, Who are You?", 1891
• "A Bird Came Down the Walk", 1891

Genres

• Poetry

Nom de plume

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Social class

Middle class

Parental background

Her father was a lawyer, comfortably off but not affluent. Emily was educated with her siblings at Amherst College.

At publication of best known work

• Age: 60
• Marital status: Unmarried
• Number of children: 0

Physical description

Few descriptions exist of Dickinson as she was famously reclusive throughout her life. Biographers generally agree that she had auburn hair and had a penchant for wearing white in the last decade of her life. Her friend Colonel Higginson described her as "a little plain woman with two smooth bands of reddish hair."

Did you know?

She composed almost 1800 poems but fewer than a dozen were published in her lifetime. She handmade booklets of her poetry.

Additional information

There are a number of US based Dickinson societies with useful websites including https://emilydickinsonmuseum.org and http://www.emilydickinson.org. There is also a Dickinson Listserv discussion list.