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Born in Amherst Ma

Educated - Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke

Secluded for last 25 years of her life

Secluded to all but most intimate friends

Intellectual companionships with men (principles)

Benjamin F. Newton - introduced her to stimulating books and urged her to take her poetry seriously.

Rev. Charles Wadsworth - met in 1854 - "dearest earthly friend"

Became the "lover" of her poetry she was never to have

He left for S.F. in 1862 - when E.D's withdrawl began

T.W. Higginson - correspondence only - knew him through his writings in Atlantic Monthly - he encouraged her