Women in the American Civil War

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 97. Chapters: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Keckly, Laura Smith Haviland, Varina Davis, Constance Cary Harrison, Kate Warne, Mary Surratt, Anna Ella Carroll, Bridget Diver, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Edwards Walker, Elizabeth Blackwell, Kate Chase, Sarah Parker Remond, Marian Hooper Adams, Sarah Grimké, Julia Ward Howe, Belle Boyd, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Augusta Jane Evans, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Otelia B. Mahone, Hetty Cary, Fanny Chamberlain, Elizabeth Van Lew, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Lillie Devereux Blake, Emma Holmes, Mary Ann Shadd, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sallie Partington, Ginnie Wade, Hattie Lawton, Pauline Cushman, Emily Blackwell, Phoebe Pember, Barbara Fritchie, Nancy Hart Douglas, Nora Fontaine Davidson, Lucy Pickens, Emeline Piggott, Emma Sansom, Antonia Ford, Kady Brownell, Clara Harris, Cornelia Peake McDonald, Mary Bowser, Joanna Fox Waddill, Madame Turchin, Frances Adeline Seward, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Virginia Clay-Clopton, Ann Jarvis, Emily Howland, Louisa Lee Schuyler, Virginia Bethel Moon, Laura Ratcliffe, Sarah Taylor, Lily Mackall, Betty Duvall, Carrie Sheads, Elizabeth Carraway Howland, Belle Reynolds, Laura Pender. Excerpt: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886-when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems-that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. The Dicki