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Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 Her father, Edward Dickinson, was a pillar of the community in Amherst, Massachusetts. A prominent lawyer and treasurer of Amherst College, this rigorous and austere man exerted great influence over his middle child, Emily. She spent a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. There her stubborn resistance to conversion during a religious revival marked her as one who did not fear to tread a lonely path. Emily returned from Mount Holyoke to her father's house and remained there.