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Emily Dickinson

Biography of Emily Dickinson
Around the time she was alive, if you asked who was Emily Dickinson, people wouldn't know, in fact the people who knew her didn’t recognize or know her as a poet, her works were not published and most of her writing was kept hidden from the public. Her poetry was unrecognized during her time,but today the world knows her poetry and writing. Even though today she is accepted worldwide as a brilliant poet and even considered as one of the best American poets. There are even some who think of her as hard to understand and interpret poet.
Education and Early Years
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. After attending the local primary school along with her brother and sister she moved on to the Amherst Academy for her formal education and there she spent around seven years. It was a very good experience for Emily, who enjoyed every aspect of the academy life. Emily Dickinson was always a very intelligent and bright student.It is believed Amherst Academy lay the foundations of a poet in her and it is at the academy she developed friendships which influenced and supported her excellence as a poet.After Amherst she went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but for one year only and it was not clear why she left within a year. Emily in her youth was a very sociable young lady and had close female friends like Abiah Root, Abby Wood, Emily Fowler, and Susan Gilbert.
Love Life and Social Life
Even though she never got married nor had any kids of her own, she had male friends who influenced her thoughts and poetry some of her male friends were unnamed lovers about whom she didn't tell anyone. Among her male friends were ; Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she first met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left shortly after a visit to her home, though it’s not clear if she shared a romantic relation with him, but after his departure Emily wrote many poems which expressed her sorrow on the parting. She called him “my closest earthly friend.” Otis P. Lord, a Massachusetts Supreme Court judge, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican were also the subject of her many poems and impacted her literary life.
By 1860 Emily lived almost in complete isolation from the outside world. Many people have talked about how she would just sit in her room and write poetry
Family and Friends
She cared for her ill mother and rarely went outside of their family home. Emily’s father was a lawyer/politician and her mother was a stay at home housewife.
Emily rarely spent a time with her friends and was an enthusiastic reader. Her brother Austin and sister Lavinia were her close companions and intellectual critique. Many of her letters to them contained her poems. Emily Dickinson liked to show her friends her poetry, she usually would send her poetry with a little basket in which she baked something special or added flowers. It was like her own signature style of showing her poetry and expressing her love to her family and friends. Everyone around Emily Dickinson knew she would write a lot but nobody ever knew that she had written over a thousand poems in her lifetime since she had only published a few in her lifetime.
Emily Dickinson died at age 55 on May 15, 1886.She had a rare kidney disease “Bright's Diseases” and her eyesight was also greatly affected. The cause of death was considered to be very high blood pressure and heart failure. Emily in her final years had to experience the death of many of her close friends, parents and her nephew. It is thought these loses led her to further reclusiveness and phases of depression. This state of mind had a lasting influence and reflected on her poetry.
Interests
Other than poetry there were many activities that interested her, she loved reading books and occasionally she would bake,Emily Dickinson also loved taking long walks,some of her poetry was about nature. She enjoyed gardening for her family in her own garden. Botany interested her deeply as well.
Recognitions and Articles about her
Emily Dickinson was not recognized in her lifetime. Her first book was published after her death in 1890. After she died her family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, which were then edited and published.