Emily Dickinson

There have been many writers throughout history who have been major influences to people everywhere. Emily Dickinson is a great example due to her unique style and her ability to inspire poets everywhere. She is considered one of the greatest and most innovative American literature poets of the nineteenth century. Being female, she allowed her gender to become involved in the literary world as well. Emily Dickinson was a major influence during the transcendentalism movement because she was an inspiration for female poets everywhere using her great sense of imagery and her search for universal truth.

Emily Dickinson was born into a mansion in Amherst on December 10th, 1830. The mansion that her family lived in was often a meeting spot for very important guests, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Pomeroy) Emily Dickinson's father, Edward Dickinson, was a lawyer as well as the treasurer at Amherst College. Later he was elected into the state legislature and became U.S representative from 1853 to 1855. Her mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, was very active and involved all around Amherst College. She also was very interested in cooking and gardening and won award for both. Emily also had an older brother named William Austin and a younger sister named Lavinia Norcross.

Emily showed many people during her childhood how bright and intelligent she was. As a young student, Emily always impressed her classmates with her writings and rhyming stories. Most of Emily's sharpness in her early years is because of her dad. Edward Dickinson was a very strict father who monitored basically everything in Emily's life even including books she could and could not read (Pomeroy). Emily, along with her two siblings, got a very well education at Amherst Academy starting when she was eleven years old. School came very easy for Emily since she loved every single one of her teachers.