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Emily Dickinson Part 1

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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A Mister Susan Huntington Gilbert

During her last mestre at amerst academy, another girl came into their class, susan huntington gilbert. At the age of 17, emily was sent 11 miles down the road to the mount holyoke female seminary. Many academic men thought that education harmed a woman's brain and all the blood away from her frail body. She hid the fact that she could not tell time from her father until she was 15 years of age cause she was just afraid he would pop off.

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