Emily_Dickinson_(1830-1886)_艾米莉·狄金森.pptVIP

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 艾米莉·狄金森 “the Belle of Amherst” Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, a small town in the state of Massachusetts. on December 10, 1830. She was born into a Calvinist family. Her father was a very wealthy, successful and prominent lawyer and politician. But she was very passive about any social and political activities. Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts Went to D.C. with her father, a congressman, because she had fallen in love with a married lawyer, who soon died of TB. There fell in love with another married man, a minister.  because of the failure of her love affairs, she began to isolate herself from others and lived a solitary life. The only contact she had with family was in whimsical, epigrammatic letters. She often lowered snacks and treats in baskets to neighborhood children from her window, careful never to let them see her face. She almost always wore white. Dickinson seldom left her house and visitors were scarce. All through her life, she did not get married and lived a very quiet, lonely life in a village. In her family library, she had access to many religious works as well as books by Emerson, other transcendentalists and current magazines about 20, began to write poems The first person to notice Dickinson’s talent was Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Higginson became a life long correspondent and a mentor. Dickinson had contact with few people, but one was Reverend Charles Wadsworth. Dickinson also befriended novelist Helen Jackson. Higginson advised Dickinson not to get her poetry published because of her violation of contemporary literary convention. Helen Jackson tried to convince her to get her work published but her requests were unsuccessful. She never approved of publishing her poems and requested her sister Lavinia to destroy all of her pomes Before her death, only seven poems were published. But after her death,