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| Name |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| Birth |
10 Dec 1830 |
Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
15 May 1886 |
Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
| Burial |
19 May 1886 |
West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
8 Jan 1930 |
ALBER |
| FamilySearch ID |
LTJ5-QPL |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I97402 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Edward Dickinson, b. 1 Jan 1803, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States d. 16 Jun 1874, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Emily Norcross, b. 23 Jun 1804, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States d. 14 Nov 1882, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
6 Mar 1828 |
Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
| Family ID |
F31095 |
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 | Birth - 10 Dec 1830 - Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Death - 15 May 1886 - Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Burial - 19 May 1886 - West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 8 Jan 1930 - ALBER |
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| Notes |
- Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusett s . She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but onl y fo r one year. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in s tat e and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brothe r, A ustin, who attended law school and became an attorney, lived next do or wi th his wife, Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, al so liv ed at home, and she and Austin were intellectual companions for Di ckinso n during her lifetime.
Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of s e venteenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revela ti on and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town, which encourage d a C alvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.
She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as we l l as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of he r c ontemporary Walt Whitman by rumors of its disgracefulness, the two po et s are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founde r s of a uniquely American poetic voice. While Dickinson was extremely pr ol ific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, sh e wa s not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of h er wo rk was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She die d in A mherst in 1886.
Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound volume s o f nearly 1,800 poems, or “fascicles” as they are sometimes called. Di ckin son assembled these booklets by folding and sewing five or six sheet s o f stationery paper and copying what seem to be final versions of poem s. T he handwritten poems show a variety of dash-like marks of various si zes a nd directions (some are even vertical). The poems were initially un boun d and published according to the aesthetics of her many early editor s, wh o removed her annotations. The current standard version of her poem s repl aces her dashes with an en-dash, which is a closer typographical a pproxim ation to her intention. The original order of the poems was not r estore d until 1981, when Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence o f the pa per itself to restore her intended order, relying on smudge mark s, needl e punctures, and other clues to reassemble the packets. Since th en, man y critics have argued that there is a thematic unity in these sma ll colle ctions, rather than their order being simply chronological or co nvenient . The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press, 1981 ) is the on ly volume that keeps the order intact.
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