emily dickinson
...n and a younger sister, Lavinia. She was the middle child. Emily had received more education than the majority of the women of her age. She attended public schools, the Amherst Academy of which her father was treasurer, and she had also spent one year at Mount Female Seminary in South Hadley. When Emily’s father was in congress in Washington D.C. in the spring of 1854, Emily, her mother, and her sister Lavinia went to visit him. On their return to Amherst they stopped in Philadelphia. It was in Philadelphia that Emily met the Reverend Charles Wadsworth. Reverend Charles Wadsworth was a famous preacher who was married. Many believe he was the subject of Emily’s love poems. Dickinson then returned to Amherst and there she would spend the rest of her life in silence at home. She hardly ever left her room. She only emerged out of her room in a white dress when guests visited. Emily perhaps saw Wadsworth merely three other times. These three times that Wadsworth visited Emily at Amherst would be the last instances that she would ever see him...