Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Apart from a few brief stays in Boston, Washington, when her father was in Congress, and Philadelphia, where in 1854 she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth, the "unattainable" love who unsettled her life, she never left her family home, immersed in her world of poetry. Upon her death in 1886, she left behind a unique body of poetic work, of which only a small portion was known to her close circle during her lifetime. The first collection of her poems was published in 1890.