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certificate says bright disease but she actually suffered from a primary hypertension, which could have led to heart failure or brain hemorrhage. Her birth place is in Amherst, Massachusetts. For her elementary school she went to Amherst academy, for her high school she went to Amherst high school, and for college she went to Amherst College owned by her family. Her mother was Emily Norcross Dickinson and her father has Edward Dickinson, her brother was William Austin Dickinson and the sister…

and an inspiration to other poets as well. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She spent most of her life in the family home that was built in 1813 by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. The Dickinson home was a center of Amherst society and the site of annual Amherst College commencement receptions due to the founding of Amherst Academy and Amherst College by her grandfather. Her home was filled with politically active males as she grew up,…

When Emily Dickinson was born, her father Edward was a young lawyer who was educated at Amherst and Yale. He followed his fathers footsteps and joined him in law practices. Edward Dickinson was also active in the Whig Party, he was elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature from 1837 to 1839 and the Massachusetts State Senate from 1842 to…

The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson, best known as The Belle of Amherst, has become one of America’s most renowned poets to date. Having redefined the meaning of poetry, her poems are now studied by students all around the world and is renowned as some of the greatest American poetry to come out of her time. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10 1830, to her parents Edward and Emily Dickinson. Emily and her two other siblings, William and Lavinia, received a top…

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson was one of three children to Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, state representative and state senator, and his wife Emily Norcross Dickinson. Coming from a well-educated family who was prominent in the community, Dickinson was not attractive on the marriage market; and spent all of her time writing in her room and taking care of her sick mother. Writing was her vocation and her avocation. Dickinson is known as one of the greatest…

Not every poet was a guy there was also females like Emily Dickinson. She was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended mount Holyoke female seminary in south Hedley, but only for a year throughout her life she left her home and she found people that in packed her life on her poetry. She started by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she first met on her trip to Philadelphia. In 1860 she left her trip to go visit her home. By the 1860 Dickinson lived in almost complete…

During a speech addressing attendees at the Jones Library in Amherst in 2004, Daria D’Arienzo spoke of the unveiling of Emily Dickinson’s daguerreotype which had been thought to be lost. “Like Dickinson’s own story, full of twists and turns and mystery. There are more questions than answers,” D’Arienzo states as she finishes speaking. The life of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was diligently dictated through verses of poetry by the woman herself in hundreds of notebooks throughout her life. The…

Emily Dickinson was an enigmatic figure. Her personal life has always been veiled in mystery which intrigued biographers and researchers of her poetry. Although she left over two thousand poems and approximately one thousand letters in which she enclosed a lot of details about herself, these remarks were more directed at highlighting the mysterious aura surrounding her life as well as creating an unambiguous image of herself. Researchers debate among themselves about the source of Dickinson’s…

Esteban Borja Pena Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Emily was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. She attended the university of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Some of her quotes are “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”, “Forever is composed of nows.”, “Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” Throughout most of her life, she seemed to have had very few visitors and sporadically left her house. The people who…

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson went on to be one of the most known and greatest American poets. This is due to her very unique and interesting writing style that has puzzled and intrigued readers for a long time. Dickinson wrote during a well-known time called Realism and that helped shape her writing. Her personal experiences also affected her dark and depressing writing, including the death of family members and friends, and the sickness all around her. In “Because I Could…