Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family—her father was a congressman, her grandfather a founder of Amherst College. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for one year before returning home, where she gradually withdrew from public life, eventually rarely leaving the family homestead. She maintained a vast correspondence and wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most of which she shared only with a small circle of trusted readers. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Poems of Emily Dickinson.