Emily_Dickson

Emily Dickson Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, Austin (her older brother) and her younger sister Lavinia. They were nurtured in a quiet, reserved family headed by their authoritative father Edward. Throughout Emily¡¯s life, her mother was not "emotionally accessible," the absence of which might have caused some of Emily¡¯s eccentricity. Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800¡¯s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father¡¯s religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry. The Dickinson family was prominent in Amherst. In fact, Emily¡¯s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College, and her father served as lawyer and treasurer for the institution. Emily¡¯s father also served in powerful positions on the General Court of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives. Unlike her father, Emily did not enjoy emily, poetry, emily's, life, wadsworth, poems, dickinson, father, dickinson's, amherst, higginson, one, died, began, after, years, war, time, samuel, left, few, charles, came, year, writing, world, took, thomas, several, same, result, religious, published, over, never, met, massachusetts, love, later, influential, house, friends, even, during, death, college, bowles, because, although