Emily Dickinson
Published on Feb 25, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
EARLY LIFE
- Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
- Emily Dickinson left school as a teenager to live a reclusive life on the family homestead.
- There, she filled notebooks with poetry and wrote hundreds of letters.
FAMILY
- Her family had deep roots in New England.
- paternal grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was well known as the founder of Amherst College.
- the couple had three children: William Austin, Lavinia Norcross and Emily.
EDUCATION
- Emily Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy
- She was an excellent student, despite missing long stretches of the school year due to depression.
- Though the precise reasons for Dickinson's final departure from the academy in 1848 are unknown, it is believed that her fragile emotional state probably played a role.
PERSONAL LIFE
- Dickinson's closest friend and adviser was a woman named Susan Gilbert
- She served as chief caregiver for their ailing mother from the mid-1850s until her mother’s death in 1882
- Scholars have speculated that she suffered from conditions such as agoraphobia, depression and/or anxiety.
NOTABLE WORKS
- Lavinia Dickinson discovered hundreds of her poems in notebooks that Emily had filled over the years
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson, wasn't published until 1955.
DEATH
- Dickinson died of kidney disease in Amherst, Massachusetts, on May 15, 1886 at the age of 56.
- She was laid to rest in her family plot at West Cemetery.
