Emily Dickinson (c. 1847)
More mysterious than anything, Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) struggled with lifelong health problems and, supposedly, debilitating agoraphobia. Despite having been moderately successful during her living years, Dickinson would posthumously become one of the United States’ most renowned poets. Amherst College said that her daguerreotype is the solely legitimized picture of the poet known to date. Millicent Todd Bingham awarded the daguerreotype to the college during 1956. The picture had been handed down from generation to generation, with Bingham having been given it in 1894 by Wallace Keep, handed to him in 1894 by his brother Austin, with Dickinson’s sister Lavinia being the original possessor.
Emily Dickinson
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