Age, Biography and Wiki
Birth Day | December 10, 1830 |
Birth Place | Amherst, MA |
Age | 189 YEARS OLD |
Died On | May 15, 1886 (age 55) |
Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
Net worth: $100K - $1M
About
A major American poet, she is known for her reclusive lifestyle and her brilliant, posthumously-published poems. Her numerous poems include "A great Hope fell," "A Clock stopped," and "Alone, I cannot be."
Before Fame
She and her sister, Lavinia, attended Amherst Academy shortly after the school opened its doors to female students.
Trivia
She wrote close to eighteen hundred poems during her relatively short lifetime. Many of these, including "Because I could not stop for Death," deal with the theme of mortality.
Family Life
She was born into a prominent Massachusetts family: her paternal grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was a founder of Amherst College. Emily Dickinson lived most of her adult life in seclusion and never married.
Associated With
She was introduced as a young woman to the works of Transcendentalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson.