Early Childhood(:
Emily, was a very well behaved child, she was born at her families homestead on December 10, 1830, into a prominent, but not wealthy, family.. She attended primary school in a two-story building on Pleasant Street. Her dad, Edward Dickinson, wanted his kids to have a well education, and he followed their progress even while away on business, he would write letters to Emily, and her siblings.
Teenage Years.!(:
When Emily was 18, her and all the family, made a new friend,an attorney, benjamin Franklin Newton, after his death in a letter Emily said "with my Father two years, before going to Worcester – in pursuing his studies, and was much in our family." Dickinson spent seven years at the Academy, taking classes in English and classical literature, Latin, botany, geology, history, "mental philosophy," and arithmetic. Daniel Taggart Fiske, the school's principal at the time, would later remember Dickinson as "very bright" and "an excellent scholar, of exemplary deportment, faithful in all school duties.
Family Information
Emily Dickinson, was born into a very successful, but poor family. Her parents, ( Edward Dickinson, and Emily Nocross) had three children including her (Brother- William Austin Dickinson, Austin or awe, and Sister Lavinia Nocross, Lavie, or Lavinia.) Two hundred years earlier, her ancestors on her father's side, arrived in the New World. Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was almost the founder of Amherst College. In 1813 he built the homestead, (a large mansion on Main Street) that soon became the families main focus. Samuel Dickinson's eldest son, Edward, was treasurer of Amherst College for nearly forty years, served numerous terms as a State Legislator, and represented the Hampshire district in the United States Congress. On May 6, 1828, he married Emily Norcross from Monson. They had three children.
Emily with her brother/sister.
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Emily is on the left.
Austin in the midde.
Lavinia on the right.
Austin in the midde.
Lavinia on the right.