Do you know who Emily Dickinson is? I heard she was some kind of poet.
Emily Dickinson was an 1800s American Poet, yes.
Oh, ok. Did she have any poems that were famous?
She had several famous poems, but she was mostly known for her eccentric attitude, penchant for white clothing, and isolation of herself.
Hmm, she sounds like quite the eccentric! I wonder what her obsession with white clothing meant.
Well, she was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, so it was probably quite unusual for the time.
Yeah, I would think it would be difficult to keep white clothing clean in the days before washing machines!
In her days, before indoor plumbing, the washerwoman (laundress, housewife, etc.) would have had to fetch water eight to ten times every day just for laundry.