List of 999 women of the Heritage Floor / Emily Dickinson
This list describes the setting for Emily Dickinson on the table of the art installation The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago . It is part of the list of 999 women on the Heritage Floor who are assigned to the respective place settings on the table. The names of the 999 women are on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which is arranged below the table and belongs to the art installation.
description
The installation consists of a three-sided table, each with 13 historical or mythological personalities, thus a total of 39 people, from prehistory to the women's rights movement . These people were assigned a place setting at the table, consisting of an individually designed table runner, an individually designed plate, a goblet, knife, fork, spoon and serviette. The first page of the table is devoted to prehistory up to the Roman Empire , the second to Christianization up to the Reformation and the third from the American Revolution to the women's movement. Each place setting on the table is assigned additional personalities who have received an entry on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which occupies the space under the table and the center of the space between the sides of the table. This list captures the personalities assigned to Emily Dickinson's place setting. Your seat is on the third side of the table.
Hints
In addition to the names as they are used in German transcription or in scientific usage, the list shows the spelling chosen by Judy Chicago on the tiles.
The information on women who do not yet have an article in the German-language Wikipedia is referenced by the individual references listed under comments . If individual information in the table is not referenced via the main article, additional individual references are given at the relevant point. If there are any discrepancies between the information provided in Wikipedia articles and the descriptions of the work of art on the Brooklyn Museum website , this will also be indicated under Comments.
Place setting for Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst , Massachusetts , to one of three children to Edward Dickinson and his wife, Emily Norcross. Her father was a lawyer , politician, and treasurer of Amherst College , which her grandfather founded. Dickinson came from a long-established Calvinist family and stayed in Amherst all her life. After attending Amherst Academy, where she received classes in classical literature, Latin , history, religion, math, and biology, she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary . She attracted attention through her intelligence, but she dropped out of school after a year because shesuffered from depression and was also physically vulnerable. She increasingly withdrew and was considered shy of people. She only had personal contacts with a few people, including her sister Lavinia and her brother Austin, as well as his wife Susan, a childhood friend of Emily, and the clergyman Charles Wadsworth from Philadelphia . She only kept in touch with a number of friends and relatives by letter.
Her first poems were written in 1850. From around 1858 they were organized and summarized in notebooks. She had the phase of her greatest creative work between 1860 and 1870. But this was also characterized by increasing isolation and illness. Only seven poems were published during her lifetime, 1775 are known poems that were often found in letters to friends and relatives and published by them. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886. Her last words were: "I must go in, for the fog is rising."
The place setting for Emily Dickinson on the dinner table is supposed to represent the contrast between her withdrawn way of life and her dynamic spirit, but also the strict Victorian times in which she lived. Chicago was particularly inspired by the following poem:
"I HIDE myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too -
And angels know the rest."
The plate of the place setting was decorated with a collar as worn in the mid-nineteenth century. It has a delicate center, which is caught by several layers of lace. Illustrated Chicago. The center of the plate appears strong and stable, yet is suffocated by the surrounding top layers. These curled layers were made using a process called "lace draping". The tip is soaked with slip and burned. This technique was used in the production of porcelain dolls and is meant to illustrate the limitations Dickinson was subject to in her day. The table runner has been decorated with tips that have been stained with tea and coffee to make them look older. Sewing techniques typical of the Victorian era, such as working with ribbons and silk flower embroidery, decorate the table runner. The back is decorated with lace flounces and the initial letter "E" on the front is decorated with floral embroidery.
Surname | Spelling on the tile | Date of birth | cultural spatial assignment | Remarks | image |
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Albertine Necker de Saussure | Albertine Necker de Saussure | 1766 | Switzerland | Writer, educator, and an early advocate of education for women. |
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Anna Louisa Karsch | Anna Karsch | 1722 | Kingdom of Prussia | Poetess . She was the mother of the poet Caroline Louise von Klencke and the grandmother of Helmina von Chézy . |
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Anne Clough | Anne Clough | 1820 | United Kingdom | Pioneer in women's education. In 1841 she opened her first school in the family home. She later became the director of Newnham College , Cambridge, which opened in 1875 and was one of the first colleges for women. |
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Bertha von Suttner | Bertha von Suttner | 1843 | Empire of Austria | Pacifist , writer , and peace researcher who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 . |
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Betje Wolff | Elizabeth Bekker | 1738 | Netherlands | Writer. |
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Bettina von Arnim | Bettina von Arnim | 1785 | Kingdom of Prussia | Writer and important representative of German romanticism , publisher, promoter of young talent, social activist. |
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Charlotte Brontë | Charlotte Brontë | 1816 | United Kingdom | Author of the novel Jane Eyre , which reflects Brontë's own struggle for integrity and self-sufficiency. |
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Christina Rossetti | Christina Rossetti | 1830 | United Kingdom | Victorian poetess . |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806 | United Kingdom | One of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was very popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime. |
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Elżbieta Drużbacka | Elizabeth Druzbacka | 1695/1698 | Poland-Lithuania | Poet, she described the Polish nature and landscape in her poetry. |
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Emily Brontë | Emily Brontë | 1818 | United Kingdom | Writer who became known through her only novel Wuthering Heights (German: Sturmhöhe ). Emily Brontë published exclusively under the pseudonym Ellis Bell . |
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Emma Willard | Emma Willard | 1787 | United States | Educator and pioneer in the field of higher education for women and co-education in the United States. |
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Fanny Burney | Fanny Burney | 1752 | United Kingdom | Writer, diary writer and playwright. |
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Frances Brooke | Frances Brooke | 1724 | England | Writer, essayist, playwright and translator. |
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George Eliot | George Eliot | 1819 | United Kingdom | Writer, translator and journalist who is one of the most successful authors of the Victorian era . |
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George Sand | George Sand | 1804 | France | Writer who, in addition to novels, also published numerous articles critical of society . |
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Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | 1802 | United Kingdom | Writer who presented the reform-conscious political and scientific ideas of her time in numerous newspaper articles and books. She is considered an early champion for women's rights and is often referred to as the first feminist sociologist . |
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Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht | Hedwig Nordenflycht | 1718 | Sweden | Writer during the Enlightenment . |
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Jane Austen | Jane Austen | 1775 | England | Writer from the Regency period , whose main works Pride and Prejudice and Emma are classics of English literature . |
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Joanna Baillie | Joanna Baillie | 1762 | Scotland | Poet of romance . |
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Margaret Fuller | Margaret Fuller | 1810 | United States | Closest Transcendentalist writer and journalist , one of New England's foremost intellectuals . Her main work Women in the 19th Century established her reputation as an early feminist . |
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Maria Edgeworth | Maria Edgeworth | 1767 | England , Ireland | Writer , daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth . |
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Mary Lyon | Mary Lyon | 1797 | United States | Educator and suffragette , founder and first president of Mount Holyoke College Women's University . |
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Nedelya Petkova | Baba Petkova | 1826 | Bulgaria | Pioneer of women's education, founder of the first girls' schools in Bulgaria under Ottoman rule. |
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Veres Pálné | Hermione Veres | 1815 | Austria-Hungary | Educator and feminist, founded the first secondary school for girls in Hungary. |
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Susanna Rowson | Susanna Rowson | 1762 | United States | Writer and actress . |
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- Individual evidence
- ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Emily Dickinson. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
- ^ Brooklyn Museum: Frances Brooke. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
- ^ Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History . The Monacelli Press, LLC, 2014, ISBN 978-1-58093-397-1 ( books.google.de ).
Web links
- Brooklyn Museum, Emily Dickinson
- The Dinner Party on the website of Through the Flower , Judy Chicago's non-profit organization