In the same year Emily visited her cousin in Philadelphia, Dickinson and her family traveled to Washington D.C. Dickinson’s father was a Yale graduate and Congressman. Though Dickinson did not travel often, she was very passionate about politics and current events and thoroughly enjoyed this visit. 

During Emily’s life, only a handful of her works were published, three of which being in publications in Brooklyn. 

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This is where the majority of Dickinson’s works were published during her life.

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In 1855, Dickinson along with her parents and sister traveled to Philadelphia, where they visited her second cousin, Eliza Coleman

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