Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts into a lower middle class family with an older brother and sister. Emily obeyed her father, but did what she thought was right for herself. If her parents told her not to go in the woods, or she might get flower poisoning or a snake bite, she responded by saying all she ever met were "angels." At age nine Emily started school at Amherst Academy. It was …

…father, then her mother, and then her little nephew at age eight. Emily lived three more years, but she was sick most of the time. Vinnie took good care of her. In 1886, Emily Dickinson died. Emily Dickinson was not gone yet though. In fact, she had just begun. As a funeral gift, Vinnie took some of Emily's poems to be published. The public liked them so much, they encouraged Vinnie to find more of them.