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Did Emily Dickinson ever marry?

No, American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–86) never married, although she had a few intense personal relationships, at least one of which was romantic.

When she was a young woman she sent affectionate valentines to friends, and she later wrote many love poems. Between 1858 and 1861 Dickinson drafted three pleading letters to an unidentified person she called “Master.” It is unknown if she ever sent final versions of the letters, and there remains much speculation about who “Master” was. Possible candidates include George Henry Gould, a former college classmate of her brother and the recipient of an earlier prose valentine from Dickinson; her friend Kate Scott Anthon; her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson; newspaper publisher and editor Samuel Bowles; and Presbyterian minister Charles Wadsworth.

When she was about 50, Dickinson began a passionate romance with Otis Phillips Lord, an elderly judge on the supreme court of Massachusetts. In one of her letters, she apparently declined either a sexual advance or a marriage proposal, asking him, “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?”