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Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works


Emily Dickinson made a large influence on poetry, she is known as one of
America's most famous poets. With close to two thousand different poems and one
thousand of her letters to her friends that survived her death Emily Dickinson
showed that she was a truly dedicated writer.
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10,1830
to a prominent family, her father Edward Dickinson was both a lawyer and the
Treasurer of Amherst College. Emily's mother was Emily Norcross Dickinson.
Emily had one older brother, William Austin and a little sister, Lavinia. She
was educated at the Amerherst Academy, the institute that her grandfather helped
found. She also spent a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley,
but had left because she did not like the religious environment. For a woman of
this time, this much education was very rare.1
Emily Dickinson was a very mysterious person as she got older......

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