Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a family well known for educational and political activity. Her father, an orthodox Calvinist, was a lawyer and treasurer of the local college. He also served in Congress. Dickinson's mother, whose name was also Emily, was a cold, religious, hard-working housewife, who suffered from depression. Her relationship with her daughter was distant. Later Dickinson wrote in a letter, that she never had a mother. Dickinson was educate.. Continue..

Some of Emily Dickinson Poems

There is another sky

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Because I could not stop for Death

Nobody knows this little Rose

I started Early -- Took my Dog --

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Quote from Author

	A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

- Emily Dickinson

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