Her grandfather Samuel Dickinson had established
Amherst Academy and Amherst College which still stand today.
The three Dickinson children attended
Amherst Academy, founded by their grandfather, and Emily spent the year of 1847-48 at the relatively new Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College.
Dickinson was educated at
Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
She led a secluded life in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was educated at
Amherst Academy (a local private secondary school) and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
All three of the Dickinson children were superbly educated: Emily completed her secondary school education at the
Amherst Academy, where she received advanced instruction not only in languages and literature, but in Mathematics and science as well; she went on to the newly-created Mt.
Wolff gives a fascinating account ofthe rigorous curriculum of
Amherst Academy, founded to give Puritan daughters as well as sons a solid Christian education.
While a resident in Amherst, Massachusetts, he was president of the
Amherst Academy (1820 - 21) and helped to found Amherst College.