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Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Victorian hedera typography — black — iPhone 11 front
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Brain wider than Sky quote — black — iPhone 11 Pro front
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — hedera ornament design — black — iPhone 12 front
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 4
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 5
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 6
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 7
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 8
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 9
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 10
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 11
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 12
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 13
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 14
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 15
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 16
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 17
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 18
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 19
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 20
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 21
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 22
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 23
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 24
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 25
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 26
Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Dickinson Brain quote — black — iPhone model variant 27
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Fleur de Brainiac — Dickinson Curious Mind Phone Case

Price$32.00

"The Brain — is wider than the Sky —"

Emily Dickinson, c. 1862

Every time you pick up this case, the first thing you read is Dickinson's most quietly radical claim — that the brain is bigger than everything outside it. She wrote the poem around 1862, in a house she rarely left: no phone, no feed, no inbox, just a mind she spent her days inhabiting. What you carry in your head is larger than what you're looking at.

The Design

The two gold ornaments framing the quote are fleurons — also called hedera, Latin for ivy. A heart entwined with vines. They're one of the oldest typographic ornaments there is — used to divide text in Greek and Latin manuscripts long before print, then set by hand by compositors to mark where a poem began and ended, the way you'd close a door on a small room.

They're not decoration laid over the design. They're type — the same printed vocabulary an editor in Dickinson's lifetime would have reached for. At this size, held a few inches from your face, they do what they were built to do: frame a few lines and tell you this part matters, slow down. Dickinson kept her poems folded in her pocket. This sits in the same place.

Read the full story: Why Emily Dickinson Valued Private Journals Over Public Fame.

Also available: Fleur de Brainiac — T-Shirt — the same hedera, across the chest.

About This Case

  • Tough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell
  • Raised edges protect the screen and camera
  • Wireless charging compatible — works with most Qi enabled devices
  • Available for iPhone 11 through iPhone 17 Pro Max

Keep away from prolonged direct sunlight and high-alcohol liquids to preserve the design.

Who It's For

The reader who wants Dickinson with them all day. The person who finds Victorian typography more honest than modern minimalism. The one who keeps picking up their phone and putting it down, and wouldn't mind being reminded why.

Carry the wider brain.

Emily Dickinson, in Plain English

  • Lived: 1830–1886, Amherst, Massachusetts — mostly inside one house, by choice
  • Wrote nearly 1,800 poems. Published fewer than a dozen while alive. The rest she sewed by hand into roughly forty small booklets and kept close — her sister Lavinia found them after her death
  • She wrote in pencil, on whatever was within reach: the backs of recipes, grocery lists, scraps in her apron pocket
  • The dashes early editors "fixed" were never broken. It took scholars decades to undo the cleanup and print what she actually wrote — the small private marks she never meant for a wide audience
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Fleur de Brainiac Phone Case — Emily Dickinson — Victorian hedera typography — black — iPhone 11 front
Fleur de Brainiac — Dickinson Curious Mind Phone Case Price$32.00