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Emily Dickinson was born december 10th in Amerst Massachusetts
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Wrote poems on everything from napkins, crumpled bags, paper, boxes, and even picture.
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Never married, never even recieved a marriage proposal
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Emily was almost always in her bedroom she was very anti-social but in 1847 to 1848 she went to a female seminary, but she left after one year, reasons for leaving were speculated as homesickness, poor health, and not wanting to sign a public confession about her belief in god.
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Emily was a spinster, which means she did not like children and that she did not want to have any children, and in her life time she did not have any children.
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Emily was the daughter of highly respected lawyer in Amherst, Massachusetts, she was educated at Amherst academy and one year at the female seminary, and she was considered a fun energetic young women until she secluded her self to her bedroom and thats where she remained until her death.
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During Emily's lifetime only eleven of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published, and the ones that were published were greatly altered by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. And the only reason that thses eleven poems were published is because it was thought that friends and family got a hold of them and sent them to publishers and paper's.
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Emily was having very many problem's with her eyes so she went to see a doctor and he forbided her to ever read or write again and that is what sparked her poetry writing.
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All of emily's poems that she wrote, she did not label, title, or puncuate any of them so they were very raw and when she died her family and friends found all of them they had to do all this like find a title and puncuate them correctly.
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Never wrote anywhere but her second floor bedroom so she was always in the same environment and enjoyed writing there.
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Emily dickinson was never married, or never recieved a marriage proposal.
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She also wrote many letters to her friends and family but never gave them to them, they contained, poems, cartoons, jokes, gossip, and biographical information about her. And they found them after she died when they went through her room and found all of her poetry.
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Emily's poetry was considered some of the best and most original of her time period and the nineteenth century, and many people thought she was very talented at what she did.
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Emily's bedroom faced a cemetary so she saw burials on an every day bases, which kind of influenced her writings cause all she ever seen was death.
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Never left and or lived anywhere but her parents house which is where she was born.
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