Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886
American poet who lived in near seclusion in Amherst, Massachusetts, and whose nearly 1,800 poems, mostly published after her death, reshaped American poetry.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Emily Dickinson.
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- Clara Barton (1821–1912) Overlapped 56 years →
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896) Overlapped 56 years →
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) Overlapped 56 years →
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Overlapped 56 years →
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Saw her first poem published in the Springfield Daily Republican
20 February 1852
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Began her correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson
15 April 1862
She sent the critic four poems and asked whether her verse was alive.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Withdrew almost entirely from public life
c. 1865
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