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

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."

- Emyli Dickinson : Dickinson, Complete Poems, 427

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
Albertine Necker de Saussure	Albertine Necker de Saussure	1766	Switzerland	Writer, educator, and an early advocate of education for women.
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 .
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.
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 .
Betje Wolff	Elizabeth Bekker	1738	Netherlands	Writer.
Bettina von Arnim	Bettina von Arnim	1785	Kingdom of Prussia	Writer and important representative of German romanticism , publisher, promoter of young talent, social activist.
Charlotte Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	1816	United Kingdom	Author of the novel Jane Eyre , which reflects Brontë's own struggle for integrity and self-sufficiency.
Christina Rossetti	Christina Rossetti	1830	United Kingdom	Victorian poetess .
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.
Elżbieta Drużbacka	Elizabeth Druzbacka	1695/1698	Poland-Lithuania	Poet, she described the Polish nature and landscape in her poetry.
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 .
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.
Fanny Burney	Fanny Burney	1752	United Kingdom	Writer, diary writer and playwright.
Frances Brooke	Frances Brooke	1724	England	Writer, essayist, playwright and translator.
George Eliot	George Eliot	1819	United Kingdom	Writer, translator and journalist who is one of the most successful authors of the Victorian era .
George Sand	George Sand	1804	France	Writer who, in addition to novels, also published numerous articles critical of society .
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 .
Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht	Hedwig Nordenflycht	1718	Sweden	Writer during the Enlightenment .
Jane Austen	Jane Austen	1775	England	Writer from the Regency period , whose main works Pride and Prejudice and Emma are classics of English literature .
Joanna Baillie	Joanna Baillie	1762	Scotland	Poet of romance .
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 .
Maria Edgeworth	Maria Edgeworth	1767	England , Ireland	Writer , daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth .
Mary Lyon	Mary Lyon	1797	United States	Educator and suffragette , founder and first president of Mount Holyoke College Women's University .
Nedelya Petkova	Baba Petkova	1826	Bulgaria	Pioneer of women's education, founder of the first girls' schools in Bulgaria under Ottoman rule.
Veres Pálné	Hermione Veres	1815	Austria-Hungary	Educator and feminist, founded the first secondary school for girls in Hungary.
Susanna Rowson	Susanna Rowson	1762	United States	Writer and actress .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Emily Dickinson. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
2. ^ Brooklyn Museum: Frances Brooke. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
3. ^ 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

Commons : The Dinner Party  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brooklyn Museum, Emily Dickinson
• The Dinner Party on the website of Through the Flower , Judy Chicago's non-profit organization