Almost all of this dress for Emily Dickinson is made of white paper. Dickinson didn't get married nor would she have worn a dress so ornate. That's for poor Miss Havisham.
There are three strings of cut-out text in the dress.
At the top section of the dress, the line is from a letter Emily Dickinson wrote in 1862 to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Letter 268):
my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur—and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves -
The lines in the middle are the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem F1269:
I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame—
The stanza at the bottom is from Emily Dickinson's poem F 46 Before the ice is in the pools -:
That which sings so - speaks so -
When there's no one here - Will the frock I wept in Answer me to wear?
Almost all of this dress for Emily Dickinson is made of white paper. Dickinson didn't get married nor would she have worn a dress so ornate. That's for poor Miss Havisham.
There are three strings of cut-out text in the dress.
At the top section of the dress, the line is from a letter Emily Dickinson wrote in 1862 to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Letter 268):
my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur—and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves -
The lines in the middle are the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem F1269:
I thought that nature was enough
Till Human nature came
But that the other did absorb
As Parallax a Flame—
The stanza at the bottom is from Emily Dickinson's poem F 46 Before the ice is in the pools -:
When there's no one here -
Will the frock I wept in
Answer me to wear?