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She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Her father was Edward Dickinson and her mother was Emily Norcross.
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Emily attended at Amherst Academy. She began writing at 16 and in 1847 Emily left her family home to study at a seminary.
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She started to write poetry: Emily Dickinson begins collecting her poems into small packets, today called "fasciscles". This practice continues until 1864.
Dickinson writes the first of three manucript drafts now known as the "Master Letters" to an as-yet unidentified correspondent. -
Emily died in Amherst, Massachusetts, EEUU by bright´s disease.
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Her first collection of poems was published by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd: Second Series (1891) and Third Series (1896).
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Her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi undertakes the task of editing her works again.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. -
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
