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.
“Emily Dickinson's Poems.” Emily Dickinson Biography, CliffsNotes, https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/e/emily-dickinsons-poems/emily-d….
This is where the majority of Dickinson’s works were published during her life.
“Emily Dickinson's Poems.” Emily Dickinson Biography, CliffsNotes, https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/e/emily-dickinsons-poems/emily-d….
In 1855, Dickinson along with her parents and sister traveled to Philadelphia, where they visited her second cousin, Eliza Coleman
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One of the final times Dickinson traveled out of the family estate, she spent April to November of 1864 in Cambridge, MA receiving treatment for a debilitating eye condition by the area’s opthamologist, Dr. Henry Willard Williams.
This is where Emily Dickinson attended school for just one year after attended Amherst Academy (now no longer existing) for seven years. It is now currently Mount Holyoke College for women.
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