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Emily Dickinson. Biography. 1830-1855: Childhood and Youth; 1855-1865: The Writing Years; 1865-1886: The Later Years; Emily Dickinson’s Family & Friends; Special topics. Domestic Labor in the Dickinson Family Households; Cooking; Death; Gardening; Reading; The Church; The Civil War; Her Health; Love Life; Her White Dress; Schooling: Amherst ...
Emily Dickinson 101. Demystifying one of our greatest poets. By The Editors. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. Emily Dickinson published very few poems in her lifetime, and nearly 1,800 of her poems were discovered after her death, many of them neatly organized into small, hand-sewn booklets called fascicles.
Emily Dickinson, (born Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S.—died May 15, 1886, Amherst), U.S. poet. Granddaughter of the cofounder of Amherst College and daughter of a respected lawyer and one-term congressman, Dickinson was educated at Amherst (Mass.) Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
