... served in the Massachusetts State Senate, the United States House of Representatives and was both the treasurer and attorney of Amherst College. He was a very religious, hardworking man and was also a strict father figure. Edward tried to keep Emily away from books that would "joggle" her mind, especially her religious faith. He died in 1874. Emily's mother, Emily Norcross, was a quiet woman ... them, which she sometimes lowered to the garden in a basket from her window. Emily secretly wrote about 1,800 poems in her lifetime and kept them with some letters in hand bound books. Even befo...

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