History Creator / EmilyDickinson

* LonersAreFreaks: She spent most of her life secluded from the world, and she was known for being... odd. Downplayed, however, in that she did still see her family and communicated with her close friends via letters, and by most accounts Emily was quite nice.

* QueerFlowers: One of her most famous poems about her lover Susan Gilbert refers to violets lying in her eye.

* DeadArtistsAreBetter: No more than 12 of Emily Dickinson's works were published; these were heavily edited for punctuation and style by the editors. Only after her death were the vast majority of her unedited, unpublished poems recovered.

* AmbiguouslyGay/AmbiguouslyBi: It's theorized that Emily may have had romantic feelings for her friend, Sue Gilbert, who would later marry Emily's brother. She would write letters to Sue detailing how she had thoughts and feelings for her that make her feel feverish and her heart to start racing. She also sided with Sue against her brother Austin Dickinson in a family feud that started when Austin had an affair with a younger woman and [[ForeverWar is still going on in Amherst]].

* WomanInWhite: A trademark of Dickinson's, though the few photographs that exist of her today show her in almost anything but a white dress.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: It's theorized that Emily may have had romantic feelings for her friend, Sue Gilbert, who would later marry Emily's brother. She would write letters to Sue detailing how she had thoughts and feelings for her that make her feel feverish and her heart to start racing. She also sided with Sue against her brother Austin Dickinson in a family feud that started when Austin had an affair with a younger woman and [[ForeverWar is still going on in Amherst]].

* CommonMeter: Many of her works. "Because I Cannot Stop For Death" famously uses the same meter as the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' theme.
** Justified in that many of her works were intentionally written in the meter of a hymn. Compare the meter of her poems to "Amazing Grace".

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was the daughter of a prominent local family. Known in the community for being an eccentric, she rarely left her home and most of her contact with the outside world was through letter correspondence with friends.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) in Amherst, Massachusetts, ) was the daughter of a prominent local family. Known in the community for being an eccentric, she rarely left her home and most of her contact with the outside world was through letter correspondence with friends.

Born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson was the daughter of a prominent local family. Known in the community for being an eccentric, she rarely left her home and most of her contact with the outside world was through letter correspondence with friends.

Unbeknown to most, she was a prolific poet; indeed, she composed some 1800, though only a dozen were ever published in her lifetime. Much of her work covered themes of faith, death, flowers, and employed unusual grammar and syntax for the day. Because of this, they were heavily edited by anthologies, and after her death on May 15, 1886, by her family. It was not until nearly half a century later that her works would be published unedited. Today, she is considered one of the most innovative and influential of American poets.

* LonersAreFreaks

* ShrinkingViolet

* ExecutiveMeddling: Editors, and later her descendants, would change her work to be more in line with the style of contemporary works.

* ReclusiveArtist: Particularly near the end of her life, Emily would never leave the house, and communicated with her close friends only through letters. She still managed to live a rather social life despite this.

* PunctuationShaker: One of the defining styles of her work. Common are dashes - and "odd apostrophes", with Important Words Capitalized.

* CommonMeter: Many of her works. ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' notes that "Because I Cannot Stop For Death" can be sung to the tune of the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' theme.

-->''There is no Frigate like a Book\\

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:Not only in lifestyle, but also in her style of writing.
* CommonMeter: Many of her works. ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' notes that "Because I Cannot Stop For Death" can be sung to the tune of the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' theme.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Had red hair and [[RedEyes eyes]], though she described her hair as 'chestnut' because red hair was considered unattractive and morally suspect at the time.

* CommonMeter: Many of her works. {{Xkcd}} notes that "Because I Cannot Stop For Death" can be sung to the tune of the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' theme.

To take us Lands away\\

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[[caption-width:200: Featured not in her usual white.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: It's theorized that Emily may have had romantic feelings for her friend, Sue Gilbert, who would later marry Emily's brother. She would write letters to Sue detailing how she had thoughts and feelings for her that make her feel feverish and her heart to start racing. She also sided with Sue against her brother Austin Dickinson in a family feud that started when Austin had an affair with a younger woman and [[ForeverWar is still going on in Amherst]], to this local troper's occasional bafflement.

[[caption-width:200: Featured not in her usual white]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: not only in her lifestyle, but also her works were so innovative the contemporary publishers "corrected" them.

* DeadArtistsAreBetter: In the very few instances she tried to publish a poem, they would always modify it or turn her down. Other than that, no one even knew about her poems at all until after she died and they found piles of them hidden in her room.

* PunctuationShaker: One of the defining styles of her work.
* NightmareFetishist: One of her longer poems seems to be describing her being courted by Death incarnate.
* NoTitle: Most of her poems are identified by their first line.
* ReclusiveArtist: Even when she was younger she only left her hometown a handful of times. Eventually she seemed to stop leaving her house that often because of her parent's health. Eventually she stopped leaving her room altogether, and communicated to servants and guests through her bedroom door. At the same time, she was still living a very social and active life, and frequently wrote letters to her friends, sent gifts to visitors, and spoiled her sibling's children.

* WomanInWhite: A trademark of Dickinson, though one of the only known images of her seems to be one of the very few times she ever wore something besides her white dress.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: It's theorized that Emily may have had romantic feelings for her friend, Sue Gilbert, who would later marry Emily's brother. She would write letters to Sue detailing how she had thoughts and feelings for her that make her feel feverish and her heart to start racing. She also sided with Sue against her brother Austin Dickinson in a family feud that started when Austin had an affair with a younger woman and [[ForeverWar is still going on in Amherst]].

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: It's theorized that Emily may have had romantic feelings for her friend, Sue Gilbert, who would later marry Emily's brother. She would write letters to Sue detailing how she had thoughts and feelings for her that make her feel feverish and her heart to start racing.