Who is Emily Dickinson?

Hi my name is Felicia and throughout high school I always heard how great of a poet Emily Dickinson was. To this day I know nothing about who she is. So for all of you who are interested about learning about her with me come along for the ride we can learn together! We are going to start off with just some bacis facts about her then we will get into some stuff later in the blog. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. In Amherst Massachusetts she is the daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson and had two siblings.   Throughout Emily's life her mother was not emotionally accessible. As a child Emily grew up following her father's religion, but as she got older she argued about what he believed in. Emily's grandfather Samuel Dickinson was one of the founders of Amherst College, and her father was a lawyer that served as the treasure for the college. Since Emily had family involved in the college she got a fine education. Emily  Dickinson was diagnosed in 1886 as having Bright's disease, a kidney dysfunction that resulted in her death in May of that year. After dying Emily's sister found all the poems that Emily had wrote and had them published.