Did Emily Dickinson ever marry?

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Emily Dickinson, c. 1847 — Emily Dickinson Poet Emily Dickinson is one of American poetry's most singular and influential voices.

No, the American poet Emily Dickinson never married.1

Although she remained single throughout her life, she experienced several intense personal relationships, including romantic ones. In her later years, she conducted a passionate romance with Otis Phillips Lord, a judge on the Massachusetts supreme court. Correspondence suggests that she declined a marriage proposal from him, writing, "Dont you know you are happiest while I withhold and not confer – dont you know that ‘No’ is the wildest word we consign to Language?" Earlier in her life, she also experienced a period of personal crisis involving an unidentified person she addressed as "Master," and she maintained a long-term, complex correspondence with the minister Charles Wadsworth.123