Homestead Library and Conservatory – Emily Dickinson Museum

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EDUCATION

A bright and eager student, Emily Dickinson had access to a level of formal schooling that was exceptional for girls in the early nineteenth-century, though not unusual for girls in Amherst.

RELIGION

Dickinson’s life-long exploration of immortality, doubt, and faith are reflected in her poetry.

READING LIFE

Growing up in a family that valued reading and provided an ample library shaped Dickinson as a poet.

NATURAL WORLD

Amherst’s cultivated and native plants, flowers, trees, and shrubs provided the poet with a constant source of poetic inspiration.