Emily Dickinson was born on 10 December 1830 in Amherst. An American poet, Dickinson lived a mostly secluded life in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems. Only a handful were published in her lifetime, and these were edited to conform to conventions. After her death her sister discovered the manuscripts, and later editions restored her unconventional punctuation, dashes and slant rhymes. Her short, compressed poems on death, nature, faith and the mind, such as Because I could not stop for Death, are now seen as among the most original in American literature.
Before and after
- 18 August 1830Birth of Franz Joseph I of Austria
- from 25 August 1830 to 21 July 1831Belgian Revolution
- 8 September 1830Birth of Frédéric Mistral
- from 29 November 1830 to 21 October 1831November Uprising
- 10 December 1830Birth of Emily Dickinson
- 17 December 1830Death of Simón Bolívar
- 1831Publication of Brazilian National Anthem
- 1831Publication of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1831Discovery of Lewis chessmen
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1792Publication of La Marseillaise
- 5 May 1821Founding of The Guardian
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- c. 1860sImpressionism
- 26 November 1865Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
The era
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