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§ Dickinson was born in Amherst,

Massachusetts, into a prominent family with
strong ties to its community. After studying
at the Amherst Academy for seven years in
her youth, she briefly attended the Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary before returning
to her family's home in Amherst.
§ Evidence suggests that Dickinson lived much
of her life in isolation. Considered
an eccentric by locals, she developed a
penchant for white clothing and was known
for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in
life, even to leave her bedroom. Dickinson
never married, and most friendships
between her and others depended entirely
upon correspondence.
§ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born at the family's
homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10,
1830, into a prominent, but not wealthy, family.[12] Her
father, Edward Dickinson was a lawyer in Amherst and a
trustee of Amherst College.[13] Two hundred years earlier,
her patrilineal ancestors had arrived in the New World—in
the Puritan Great Migration—where they
prospered.[14]Emily Dickinson's paternal grandfather, Samuel
Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College.[15] In
1813, he built the Homestead, a large mansion on the
town's Main Street, that became the focus of Dickinson
family life for the better part of a century.[16] Samuel
Dickinson's eldest son, Edward, was treasurer of Amherst
College from 1835 to 1873, served in the Massachusetts
House of Representatives (1838–1839; 1873) and
the Massachusetts Senate (1842–1843), and
represented Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in
the 33rd U.S. Congress (1853–1855).[17]On May 6, 1828, he
married Emily Norcross from Monson, Massachusetts.
§ The extensive use of dashes and
unconventional capitalization in Dickinson's
manuscripts, and the idiosyncratic vocabulary and
imagery, combine to create a body of work that is
"far more various in its styles and forms than is
commonly supposed".[5][153] Dickinson
avoids pentameter, opting more generally
for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter.
Sometimes her use of these meters is regular, but
oftentimes it is irregular. The regular form that
she most often employs is the ballad stanza, a
traditional form that is divided into quatrains,
using tetrameter for the first and third lines and
trimeter for the second and fourth, while rhyming
the second and fourth lines (ABCB). Though
Dickinson often uses perfect rhymes for lines two
and four, she also makes frequent use of slant
rhyme.[154] In some of her poems, she varies the
meter from the traditional ballad stanza by using
trimeter for lines one, two and four; while using
tetrameter for only line three.
§ Emily Dickinson's life and works have been the source of
inspiration to artists, particularly to feminist-oriented artists,
of a variety of mediums. A few notable examples are as
follows:
§ The feminist artwork The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago, first
exhibited in 1979, features a place setting for
Dickinson.[199][200]
§ Jane Campion's film The Piano and its novelization (co-
authored by Kate Pullinger) were inspired by the poetry of
Emily Dickinson as well as the novels by the Brontë
sisters.[201]
§ A character who is a literary scholar at a fictional New
England college in the comic campus novelby Pamela
Hansford Johnson Night and Silence Who Is Here?[202] is
intent on proving that Emily Dickinson was a
secret dipsomaniac. His obsession costs him his job.
§ The 2012 book The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault is
an English-to-English translation of her complete poems
published by McSweeney's