Famous Women in History

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

       There are many famous and effective women around the world but Emily Dickinson is one of best-known female poet in American literature forever. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Her father Edward Dickinson was one of best lawyer in the U.S. Emily attended in Amherst Academy and continued her studies in South Hadley near the Amherst. After graduation she began to write. She always dressed in white, was sensitive in nature and she had a secret love but she never married. Subject of her writings were: Pain and happiness of love, mysterious nature of death, the fear of war, GOD and religious belief, music and art. Her art at witting and these subjects caused she became the best female poet in American Literature. Few Dickinson`s poems published during her life, for example only 10 poems of 2000 poems of Emily Dickinson published in Civil War Journals. Two most important of Emily Dickinson`s works are: The poems of Emily Dickinson in 3 volumes and The letters of Emily Dickinson in 3 volumes. She spent most of her life in Amherst and she had only several trips to Washington and Boston. Eventually one of best-known women in Literature - Emily Dickinson- died in Amherst in May 15, 1886.