Emily+Dickinson

__** Childhood Life﻿﻿ **__ On December10, 1930 Emily Dickinson was born. Her birth took place in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily was the daughter of Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She had one brother, Austin, and one sister, Lavinia. Many of her family members went to a church called Congregational Church. Emily herself was not a part of the church. Her whole family was very well educated. She was a Whig, which means she was a representative to legislatures from the state and nation. She attended two colleges, South Hadley Female Seminary and Mount Holyoke College. Her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson born, built the house Emily was born in and died in. They called the house the Homestead.

During Emily Dickinson's life, she was reclusive. She would spend most of her time writing poems. She wrote poems about