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Becoming Deeply Influence On Emily Dickinson's Life

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She grew up in a prominent household living with her mother Emily Norcross, her father Edward Dickinson, and her two siblings William Austin and Lavinia Norcross. Dickinson attended school at Amherst Academy , which was discovered by her grandfather Samuel Dickinson, for seven years before switching to Mount Holyoke Female seminary. She dropped out a year later for unknown reasons. Despite nevr bing married she spent most of hr life taking care of her ill mother. Becoming extremely influenced by Leonard Humphrey and Ben Franklin Newton, she took a great deal of interest in poetry. Secretly, she wrote bundles of poems and letters that were eventually found by

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