Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her father's house.

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student.

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