Emily Dickinson
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was born and raised in a conventional New England home in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Her entire family was Christian, but she alone abandoned their religion and opposed the Church. She, like many of her peers, had rejected the rigid traditional views in favor of adopting the new transcendental ....
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.... be (hu)man, must be non-conformist.” believed and practiced this philosophy.
Dickinson was brought up by a stern, authoritarian father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from other children. After attending Amherst Academy with other scrupulous thinkers she began to develop into a free-willed person. Many of Dickinson’s friends had continued with their Christianity and her family put an enormous amount of pressure on her to convert. No longer the submissive youn ....
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