On This Day September 7

The poet Emily Dickinson started attending Amherst Academy on September 7, 1840. It was a former boys' school that had opened to female students just two years earlier. 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, later recalled that Dickinson was "very bright" and "an excellent scholar, of exemplary deportment, faithful in all school duties.”

Emily (left) and her brother and sister

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