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Known for
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Exploring personal themes of love, death, and religion in short, lyrical poems
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Milestones
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1840s Attended Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College)
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1850s Began writing poetry voluminously, organizing her work into small booklets
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1862 Sent four poems to American writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson for his opinion; he advised her not to publish them
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1886 After Dickinson's death, her sister Lavinia discovered her poems and gave them to Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd for publication.
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1890 Editors Higginson and Todd published about 115 of Dickinson's poems in Poems of Emily Dickinson.
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1955 The first complete collection of Dickinson's poems appeared in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson.
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Did You Know
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Of the 1,775 poems Dickinson wrote, only 7 were published during her lifetime.
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Dickinson rarely left Amherst, and in her later years she rarely left her family home.
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American writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a lifelong mentor to Dickinson, despite the fact that he initially discouraged her from publishing her work.
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While Dickinson is often characterized as reclusive and somewhat eccentric, she is known to have maintained close relationships with family and friends.
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