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Basic Background Information:-Early Life:-Family:-Emily Dickinson was born to a religious and well-to-do family. She grew up in a prosperous household in Amherst, Massachusetts (Beers & Odell, 2007). She has a younger sister called Lavinia and an older brother called Austin. Her father is called Edward Dickinson. She once described her family atmosphere in a letter sent to law school as “pretty much all sobriety”. Emily’s mother didn’t play a huge role in Emily’s life; her mother wasn’t as accessible as Emily would have hoped (Crumbley, 2000) Childhood:-Emily Dickinson didn’t grow up in a boring or poor family. Her family was well known in Massachusetts. Her father was an important lawyer and served as the treasurer of the Amherst College, the college, which her grandfather is one of the main founders of. Anyone who has studied Dickinson’s poetry would notice that she did not include anything from economics, politics or social issues, although she lived in a family environment that was steeped with them. But Dickinson withdrew from all social life. She barely left the house and only ...

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