Is it true that Emily Dickinson always wore white?
Legend has it that later in her life Dickinson wore white all the time. When Thomas Higginson met her in 1870, she was dressed in white; her one surviving dress is white; and she was buried in white. During Dickinson’s lifetime, townspeople who had never seen her propagated the myth, as did Dickinson’s family after her death. Although many theories exist about her assumed preference for white, Dickinson herself made no reference in any of her existing correspondence to wearing that color. See Emily Dickinson’s White Dress.
