Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10,1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the second born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Her older brother Austin and her younger sister Lavina lived in a reserved family headed by their authoritative father. Emily’s mother was not “emotionally accessible,” thought out there lives. Their parents weren’t involved in their children’s lives. One thing that their parents did do was raise there children with the Chistian tradition. They were expected to take up their father’s religious beliefs and values without any argument. Emily though did not fit in with her father’s religion and as she got older challenged these conventional religious viewpoints of her
father and his church. Here put more stuff about why she did not except the Puritan God and why because of this you saw it in her writing. Her father was also an influential politician in Massachusetts holding powerful positions. Due to this her family was very prominent in Amherst. Emily did not enjoy the popularity and excitement of her public life in Amherst. So she began to withdraw from the town, her family and friends. This private life that she lived gave her, her own private society. She refused to see almost everyone that came to visit and rarely left her father’s house.
Death and the whole experience of death was going on all throughout her life. From when she was a child and her father made her follow his religion, which in r
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