Emily Dickinson | New England by the Numbers
Adding up our favorite trivia about the legendary New England poet.
By Julia Shipley|Apr 17 2017|
1830 Year of Dickinson’s birth, in Amherst, Massachusetts
10 Number of her poems published before her death, at age 55
69 Number of years between her death and the publication of the first complete volume of her work
3,507 Number of poems and letters she’s known to have written
24 Number of years Dickinson corresponded with her mentor, Thomas Higginson, editor of The Atlantic Monthly
2 Number of times she and Higginson met in person
100,000+ Number of visitors to Amherst’s Emily Dickinson Museum since it opened in 2003
$100 Cost for a museum visitor to spend a solitary hour in the bedroom where Dickinson wrote
2 Number of words in her last known letter, from May 1866 (“Called back”)
6 Number of Irish laborers she requested carry her casket to the family grave site
