Emily Dickinson's mother, also named Emily Dickinson, kept her house immacualtely clean and didn't have much care for the politics, or writing, her husband was invested in. She was well educated for a woman of her time, in part due to the fact that her father had helped a co-educational academy which she attended form seven to nineteen. 

After suffering a stroke in 1875, her two daughters took care of her until her death seven years later. 

Emily Dickinson Museum. (n.d.). Emily Norcross Dickinson (1804-1882), mother. Emily Dickinson Museum. Retrieved December 16, 2021, from https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-norcross-dickinson-1804-1882-...