Happy 190th Birthday Emily Dickinson

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 Happy 190th  Birthday   Emily Dickinson

1830

December 10th

Born

1840

September

Enters Amherst Academy

1847

September

Enters Mt. Holyoke Seminary

1850

December 10th

Meets Susan

1852

February 20th

published-  poem

1856

July 1st

Austin marries Susan Gilbert

1862

April 15th

Higginson letter

1864-1865

February

Boston ophthalmologist

1866

January 27th

Carlo died

1874

June 16th

Father died

1882

November 14th

Mother died

1883

October 5th

Gilbert died

1884

April

Bright’s Disease

1886

May, 15th

Emily Death date

1890

November 12th

Poems published

Emily Dickinson, naked, by Dorian Buffalo-horse 1969

 

Emily Dickinson 190th Birthday  
 








 

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