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Emily Dickinson

Born on December 10, 1830

Lived with her parents, Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson, older brother, Austin and
younger sister, Lavinia in the family homestead on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts
until she was 9. At that age, her family moved to a house on what is now North Pleasant
Street, still in Amherst
A letter (“Magnum bonum, harem scarum”) appeared in the Amherst College student
publication The Indicator in 1850, and a poem “‘Sic transit gloria mundi,’” in the Springfield
Daily Republican in 1852.
1855, Dickinson moved reluctantly back to the family homestead with her famil
1858-1865 was considered by scholars to be Emily dickinsons most significant writing period

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