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Edward Dickinson (January 1, 1803 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician from Massachusetts. He is also known as the father of the poet Emily Dickinson; their family home in Amherst, the Emily Dickinson Museum, is a museum dedicated to her.
Edward Dickinson, 1840. Portrait by O.A. Bullard. E dward Dickinson embraced the conservative Whig political party and embodied its ethics of responsibility, fairness, and personal restraint to a point that contemporaries found his demeanor severe and unyielding.
Edward Dickinson dies in a Boston boarding house following his collapse while giving a speech in the Massachusetts state legislature. Edward’s death away from Amherst strikes Emily Dickinson and the rest of the Dickinson family as particularly tragic; the family has been robbed of a proper goodbye, all together, left only with the “Silence ...
Edward Dickinson (1803-1874), father Edward Dickinson embraced the conservative Whig political party and embodied its ethics of responsibility, fairness, and personal restraint to a point that contemporaries found his demeanor severe and unyielding...
May 26, 2020 · On April 15, 1862, Emily Dickinson did not set out to write the most important letter in American literary history. But many scholars believe that’s exactly what she did. In Amherst, Massachusetts—with schooling behind her and seclusion setting in—Dickinson was at a crossroads.
Apr 9, 2015 · Though Edward Dickinson was an influential figure in Emily Dickinson’s upbringing, education, and personal life, it is difficult to pinpoint his influence on her poetry. Thomas Johnson discovered one such clue, an “unwritten note” on the back of a poem that reads “Dear Father—Emily.”
Active in the Whig Party, Edward Dickinson was elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature (1837-1839) and the Massachusetts State Senate (1842-1843). Between 1852 and 1855 he served a single term as a representative from Massachusetts to the U.S. Congress.
Apr 14, 2018 · Edward Dickinson died in Boston on June 16, 1874 shortly after speaking in the General Court, where he reportedly felt ill. Though Dickinson occasionally commented on her relationship with her father while he was alive, her posthumous remarks are keenest.
A lawyer, legislator, and Amherst College treasurer, Edward Dickinson built a professional library of legal, political, and economic works: at least 230 volumes of Congressional debates and proceedings, diplomatic correspondence, executive documents of the U.S. House of Representatives, reports on trade and agriculture, and the like.
Edward Dickinson was responsible for bringing two mail deliveries per day to Amherst (Leyda, YH 2:32) and was instrumental in bringing the railroad to Western Massachusetts. These facts of his life tell us something about class status and power and are worth taking into account when analyzing the Dickinsons' political positions.
