His grandfather’s name Samuel Fowlere Dickinson, was the founder of Armherst University.
When she was only 10 years old in 1949, Emily was attending Amherst Academy and after seven years, she was able to enter Mount Holyoke Women’s Seminary, where she would remain for a short period of time.
She always stood out for wearing only white, she was a somewhat eccentric woman and had very few friends. Among his friends was Abiah Root, with whom he only communicated by letters, after he left Amherst.
For many, she was a woman with too select contacts and almost did not like to have social encounters. Another of his friends was Benjamin Newton, lawyer and secretary of his father, who would encourage him and enhance his love of writing.
One man Emily always sought literary advice from was the transcendentalist writer and critic. TW Higginson.
The priest Charles wadsworth It was for Emily her dearest earthly friend, and with whom she also talked was Susan Hungtinton Gilber, friend and sister-in-law, married to her brother Austin, a woman who would also write some poems
Considered a woman sensitive and too shyHe hardly ever left his house and secluded himself in his room, reading and soaking up more literature. Among his favorites were the bible, William Shakespeare, John keats and the Bronte sisters.
His days were spent writing beautiful and intuitive poems full of imagination and symbolism. Some of them were published in the Springfiled Republican as “Safe in their Alabaster”, “Chambers”, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” Y “I Taste a liquer Never Brewed”.
If she left her house, it was only to get to Boston, where she was treated for a vision disorder she suffered, and to Washington, where she always arrived accompanied by her sister Lavinia.
On one of his visits to Washington, he met Charles wadworth.
Emily Dickinson He stands out for writing his poems in a curious and even carefree way. It is said that he wrote them on small pieces of paper, in used envelopes or on the back of his prescriptions.
Unfortunately, his literary work was not taken into account in his years of life, many times later it would only be claimed.
Some of the books that are full of his poems have been found “New Poems” written in 1929 and “Melody Arrows” from the year 1945.
For the last twenty years of his life, he steadfastly refused to leave his family home, even for a moment. Emily got sick with a chronic nephritis, also called, Bright’s disease and died at age 55, the May 15, 1886.