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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickinson, Emily

Dickinson, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Early Life.

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, where she
died in 1886. Edward Dickinson, her father, was a lawyer and Treasurer of
Amherst College. Given this background, which included an education more
extensive than usual for young women of that period - two years at Amherst
Academy and one at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary - we can assume that the
intellectual and social life of the Amherst College community was available to
Emily Dickinson. Schoolgirl recollections of her picture a young woman ...

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