Emily Dickinson

This 8-cent Emily Dickinson stamp was issued August 28, 1971, in Dickinson's lifelong residence of Amherst, Massachusetts. Bernard Fuchs designed the stamp.

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) has proved to be one of the most well-known American poets from her time. She received excellent education for a woman of the 19th century, and attended the Amherst Academy from 1840–1847, before going to the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary until August of 1848. Best known for her reclusiveness, Dickinson left Mount Holyoke and returned to her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she lived until her death. Although she wrote over 1,700 poems during her life, the majority of Dickinson’s work was not published until after her death.