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Conduct Book and Serf: Emily Dickinson Writes a Word

When a child of one of the family's servants died in 1858, Dickinson's letter 195 referred to the servant as "the serf" and treated the death as no more important than the death of a favorite flower. In its apparent mixture of sentimentality and imperious callousness, this letter has been important to readings of Dickinson and social class. However, the word "serf" and the general topic of mastery were also prominent in the journalism and popular non-fiction that Dickinson was reading in 1858. Dickinson seems to have appropriated the word from that discourse for her private lexicon—the repository of such other special Dickinson words as "awe" and "circumference." To the extent that we can generalize from this example, we may be able to say that the primary subjects of Dickinson's letters were not events (such as the death of a child) but words (such as the word "serf").