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Emily Dickinson

  • Emily Dickinson Born on

    Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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    Emily Dickinson - Timeline by Tim Lim

  • Schools - Amherst Academy

    She was educated at Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847 and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847to 1848.
  • Schools - Female Seminary

    She was educated at Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847 and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847to 1848.
  • Inspiration

    She met the Reverend Charles Wadsworth in Philadelphia in 1854, and he may have been the inspiration for some of her love poems.
  • Living.

    It is noted that she lived in Amherst all of her life and became a recluse around 1862.
  • Death

    Dickinson died a few years later on May 15, 1886