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How It All Went Down
Dec 10, 1830
Emily Dickinson Born
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the second of three children of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson.
Sep 7, 1840
School
Emily and her sister Lavinia begin classes at Amherst Academy, a converted boys' school.
In her seven years of schooling there, she is frequently absent due to illness.
Apr 1844
Cousin Dies
Dickinson's second cousin and good friend Sophia Holland dies of typhus.
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Thirteen-year-old Emily is deeply shaken by the girl's death.
1846
Meets Leonard Humphrey
Leonard Humphrey, an educator in his early twenties, takes over as principal of Amherst Academy. Dickinson grows close to him as a friend and mentor.
He is one of several older men she refers to throughout her life as a "master."
Aug 10, 1847
Mount Holyoke
Dickinson completes her studies at Amherst Academy and enrolls at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount Holyoke College).
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