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America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature died at the age of 56 in her hometown on April 6, 1886 due to an illness. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily was the middle child of a prominent lawyer and one-term United ....

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.... her 20’s and 30’s. A friend commented by saying that Emily had so Many people at one of her parties that she never got a chance to speak with her. In addition, Dickinson kept up a voluminous correspondence with friends, family, and one of her spiritual mentors, Minister Charles Wadsworth. Although it has long been believed that various correspondents, including Higginson and editor Samuel Bowles, served as literary guides, there is no evidence that they influenced her writing. Now, biographers are increasingly recognizing the vital role of Dickinson’s sister-in-law Susan Dickinson in her writing. For more than 35 years the two women lives n ....