Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Emily Dickinson
- 1830 - wealthy family - young sister older brother
- excellent education - love was learning - at 15 confirmed in a life of study
- change in relations with her
brother and father caused conflict
- brother spoke of female propriety
and father did not hold poetry in
same esteem
- many intense relationships - susan gilbert - who went on to marry her brother albert - devastating for emily dickinson
- elected a life of solitude
- tried to publish works under writer thomas
higginson - told her to regularise her poems
- refused therefore unpublished
- finally a poem 67 was published through helen hunt jacksons agency
- courted and fell in love with judge otis lord. only lasted a few years.
- last decade filled with her loved ones dying - died
herself of brights disease in 1886