Emily Dickinson2
When Emily was old enough, she was sent to a school where strict rules did not keep Emily and the other girls from displaying their high spirits as they enjoyed the entertainments of boarding-school life.
* When Dickinson was 23 years old, her father, who had become a US Congressman, took her with him to Washington, D.C., and then on to Philadelphia. The journey seems to have marked the start of the turning point of her existence.
* In 1861, Charles Wadsworth, Dickinson's love, left for a new assignment in San Francisco, crushing Dickinson.
* During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson published no more than a handful of her typically brief poems.
* In 1955, a collection called The Poems of Emily Dickinson was finally made available.
* When Dickinson died at the age of 56, hardly anyone knew that the strange, shy woman in their midst, the perpetual bride who never crossed her own doorstep, was a poet whose sharp and delicate voice would echo for generations to come.
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