Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, into a Calvinist family; her father was a lawyer. She spent about a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, then gradually withdrew into the family home from the mid-1850s, dressed in white, speaking to her visitors from the other side of a door. She corresponded with Thomas Wentworth Higginson and with her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert. She wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems, kept in a chest; about ten appeared in her lifetime, without her name. She died in Amherst in 1886.

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• PoetryComplete PoemsEmily Dickinson · 1960Literature