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Learn about the private academy where Emily Dickinson studied from 1840 to 1847, and how it influenced her education and poetry. Explore the curriculum, teachers, and history of Amherst Academy, founded by her grandfather and Noah Webster.
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 ]
Amherst Academy. As a schoolgirl, Emily Dickinson wrote cheerfully to her friend Abiah Root, “We have a very fine school. There are 63 scholars. I have four studies. They are Philosophy, Geology, Latin, and Botany. How large they sound, don’t they?
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.
Emily Dickinson was a prodigious student who excelled in composition, Latin and sciences at Amherst Academy in her hometown. She left Mount Holyoke College after a year, disliking it.
21 ott 2024 · 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.
Dickinson’s last term at Amherst Academy, however, did not mark the end of her formal schooling. As was common, Dickinson left the academy at the age of 15 in order to pursue a higher, and for women, final, level of education. In the fall of 1847 Dickinson entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
