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Emily Dickinson

was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid
1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and
she alone decided to rebel against that and reject the Church. She like many of
her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views in life and adopted the
new transcendental outlook.
Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the
transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the
puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of
the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to
question the old ways. What used to be the focal point ...

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Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in
Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers
such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she
began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted
to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her
to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on
such issues as religion, literature and personal associations.
She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a
substantial period of time. Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she
never did reject or accept God. Wadsworth appealed to her because he had an
incredibly powerful mind and deep emotions. When he left the East in 1861 Emily
was scarred and expressed her deep sorrow in three successive poems in the
following years. They were never romantically involved but their ...

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