Taylor Swift Is Reportedly Related to Poet Emily Dickinson—Which May Confirm a Tortured Poets Fan Theory
glamour.comsixth cousin, three times removed is none other than .Ancestry first revealed this information to before sharing their findings in an Instagram post laden with Taylor Swift references. “We need to calm down…but how can we when we have BIG news,” the post began. “Renowned American poets Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson are 6th cousins, three times removed.
Swift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th century English immigrant (Swift’s 9th great-grandfather and Dickinson’s 6th great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut).
Guess we can truly say that .”According to the Ancestry website, the company draws it's findings through a combination of as well as “, including newspapers, as well as birth, death, marriage, and census records.” It's currently unclear how Ancestry made this specific alleged discovery or how Swift feels about the report, though has reached out to Swift's team for comment.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Born in 1830, Emily Dickinson produced a profound body of work which clearly serves as inspiration for the 34-year-old pop star. “If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson’s great-grandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that’s me writing in the ‘Quill’ genre,” Swift said of songs like “Ivy” and “Evermore” while Nashville Songwriters Association International's award for songwriter-artist of the decade in 2022.
Both of those song were featured on Swift's second album of 2020, Evermore, which was released on Dickinson's birthday, December 10.In that NSAI speech, Swift revealed she categorizes her songs by the “writing tool I imagined having in my hand when I scribbled [the lyrics] down.
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