Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in 1830 in Massachusetts. She came from a prominent family but spent most of her life in self-imposed isolation at her family home. Dickinson wrote nearly 1800 poems that were unconventional for the time in both style and content, dealing with themes of death and immortality. However, very few were published during her lifetime. She died in 1886 and her original style influenced later poets such as T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost. Dickinson was inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in 1973 in recognition of her groundbreaking poetry.

1. EMILY DICKINSON
Women’s Hall of Famer
By Shelby Dupre

2. SHELBY
I am 19 years old, next fall will be my Sophomore year at
MSUM
History Major
From Stillwater, MN

3. BIRTH
Born in the year 1830
Daughter of a Massachusetts
lawyer and Amherst College
Treasurer, Edward Dickinson.
Her father served one year in the
US House of Representatives

4. CHILDHOOD
One year spent at Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary,
not wanting to be
converted
She spent the rest of her
days at her fathers.

5. LIFE
Emily Dickinson clung to her family throughout her life.
She remained close to her brother and sister and both of her
parents
The death of her father and of her mother devastated her
and influenced her poetry
Although she lived to 55, Emily Dickinson never married
and remained in her family home for most of her life.

6. HER WORK
Emily Dickinson started composing verses that went
beyond the “women’s Sphere” of her time.
She went through no formal training for writing
Very little of her work was published during her lifetime
Today her poems are looked upon as some of the greatest
works in the English Language

7. DEATH
Her death in 1886
The death certificate stated that the cause of death was
Bright’s Disease
Several years prior to her death several of her close friends
died along the sad death of her mother from severe
hypertension

8. INDUCTION
Emily Dickinson was inducted into the Women’s hall of
Fame in 1973.
Her original, pre-modernist style poetry lead her to be
noted among poets such as Walt Whitman, T.S. Elliot and
Robert Frost.
This women is truly deserving of the recognition she
receives from her work.

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Emily Dickinson and Death." Emily Dickinson Museum. Web. 08 June 2010. <http://
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/ed/node/126>.
"Emily Dickinson." Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Web. 08 June 2010.
<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155>.
"Women of the Hall." National Women's Hall of Fame. Web. 08 June 2010. <http://
www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=47>.