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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 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.
By the 1850s, a public school system offered a comparable education, and the Academy was closed in 1861. The building became host to many different purposes—African American Sunday school, a few Church services, and office space until 1867 when the school was razed in order to build Amity Street Public School.
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 ...
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.
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.
In a book entitled Emily Dickinson’s Textbooks written by Carlton Lowenberg, we find a list of textbooks that Emily Dickinson may have studied during her enrollment in Amherst Academy. Many of the textbooks mentioned in this book are available at Special Collections at the Jones Library.
