Biography
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. She was an American poet, born at the family’s homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts. She comes from a family of five herself, Edward Dickinson (Father), Emily Norcross Dickinson (Mother), William Austin Dickinson (Brother), and Lavinia Norcross Dickinson(Sister). Emily was a well behaved girl her aunt noticed her affinity for music and the piano, which she called “moosic”.
Emily spent seven teenage years at the academy, taking classes in English and classical literature, botany, Latin, geology, history, mental philosophy, and arithmetic. She was a very bright and excellent scholar student even though she had a few terms, due to illness, she was only enrolled for eleven weeks but she still enjoyed her studies and writing.
During the summer of 1858, she started to put in her script books. She made good copies of her poems on fine quality fixed and then sewed small bunch of these sheets together at the fold. In the next seven years she created 40 booklets and several unattached sheaves, and altogether they all had about 800 poems. She sent poems to her friends, but more to her sister in law Susan Gilbert Dickinson.
She received an award called The Emily Dickinson book award but she really didn’t receive any awards when she was alive because most of her writing were published when she died.
Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 at age 55. Dickinson’s chief physician gave the cause of her death as bright’s disease, she was buried in all white. Before her death during the summer she saw “a great darkness coming” she was in her kitchen and then she fainted while baking, she was unconscious, other symptoms followed her illness, she was in bed for a few months. She still tried to send a final amount of letters in the spring to her lovely cousins. Several days went by and symptoms of her getting worse appeared to become worse
