Emily Dickinson

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tried to publish works under writer thomas higginson - told her to regularise her poems - refused therefore unpublished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

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