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Emily Dickinson attended Amherst Academy from 1840-1847. The school had fallen upon more precarious times by then, and in 1861, with the opening of Amherst’s first public high school, it closed completely. During the Dickinson children’s years at the Academy most of the teachers and even the principals were recent graduates of Amherst ...
A fter completing her schooling at Amherst Academy, Emily Dickinson attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847-1848. Founded ten years before, the seminary was located eleven miles south of Amherst in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The school offered a curriculum that was based on a college course of study and was among the most rigorous ...
Emily Dickinson attended Amherst Academy in her Massachusetts hometown. She showed prodigious talent in composition and excelled in Latin and the sciences. A botany class inspired her to assemble an herbarium containing many pressed plants identified in Latin. She went on to what is now Mount Holyoke College but, disliking it, left after a year.
Listing Noah Webster and Dickinson’s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, among its founders, Amherst Academy was a sister institution to Amherst College and helped achieve the educational aspirations of the town. Like most New England schools of the period, it grounded its mission in Christianity, but the curriculum was also broad and ...
Amherst College ( / ˈæmərst / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
Emily Dickinson, c. 1862 Dickinson spent seven years at the Academy, taking classes in English and classical literature, Latin, botany, geology, history, "mental philosophy," and arithmetic. Daniel Taggart Fiske, the school's principal at the time, would later recall that Dickinson was "very bright" and "an excellent scholar, of exemplary deportment, faithful in all school duties". Although she took a few terms off due to illness—the longest of which was in 1845–1846, when she was ...
Amherst Academy. The first mass of Puritans had arrived in Massachusetts by 1630, and soon afterward, they began passing laws for education. To Puritans, learning to read meant reading the Bible, which saved a soul, and in 1648, the Massachusetts General Court passed its third education law. This law demanded that families teach "their children ...
