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Emily Dickinson

  • emily dickinson

    emily dickinson
    the day she was born
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    Emily Dickinson

  • emily dickinson family moves

    emily dickinson family moves
    emily mover with her parents and her brother austin, and her sister lavina, to pleasant street in amerherst
  • emily dickinson

    emily dickinson
    she is thought to likely the oft-cited affair she had with a married minister in Philadelphia was in fact her young love from Amherst, Rev. George Gould. It's believed that her disappointment upon returning home triggered her initial withdrawal from society.
  • school

    school
    emily dickinson starts a mount holyoke female seminary in september 1847 until agust 1848
  • emily dickinson

    emily dickinson
    she has her first poem published anonymously. she is thought to have about 7 of her poems published through out her lifetime most were anonymous or against her will.
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    judge otis lord
    .Late in life (though she died in middle age at 56), she had a relationship with a Judge Otis Lord, a widower and friend of her father. He even proposed marriage to her, but she turned him down, saying: "Don't you know that you are happiest while I withhold and not confer?"
    ( not real date)
  • the doctors

    the doctors
    emily dickinson was told that she was forbided to ever read or write again. that was what sparked her poetry writing
  • Emily dickinson writings

    Emily dickinson writings
    emily dickinson never wrote outside of her 2nd floor bedroom, so she would always in the same enviroment and enjoyed writing in that room.
  • emily dickinson father

    emily dickinson father
    edward her father suddenly dies, thats when emily dickinson starts going into isolation
  • love life

    love life
    She was engaged to Rev. George Gould, a student at Amherst College, but her wealthy father broke it off because he was just a poor student.
    (not real date)
  • emily dickinson

    emily dickinson
    the day emily dickinson died
  • friendships

    friendships
    She struck up a correspondence with Atlantic Monthly editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and they became lifelong friends. (not real date)