May 29, 2020 ... This would also explain Dickinson's frequent absences from school as a child — and her reclusive nature. At the time, epilepsy was still widely ...

Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake; 'T is then we sigh for houses, And our departure take. At that enthralling gallop. That only childhood ...

The death of Frazar Stearns son of Amherst College's President Stearns affected her deeply. Stearns and Austin, Emily's brother, had been childhood friends. She  ...

The name was Emily Dickinson. ... read on Sunday “lonely and rigorous books;” and who had from childhood inspired her with such awe, that she never learned ...

Dickinson was one of three children in her family. She was the middle child between her older brother, William Austin, and her younger sister, Lavinia.

Thomas Johnson discovered one such clue, an “unwritten note” on the back of a poem that reads “Dear Father—Emily.” Taken as a visual metaphor, Edward ...

In my research on childhood I strove to include children's voices and ... I serve on the governing boards of the Emily Dickinson Museum and the Porter Phelps ...

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Like stone. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830, in a house called the Homestead, to a Calvinist family. Dickinson's ... a room full of toys. I could imagine the child ...

Jane Yolen's Emily Writes is an imagined and evocative picture book account of Emily Dickinson's childhood poetic beginnings, featuring illustrations by Ch...