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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Michael Sainato

Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson, genealogy company reveals

a side-by-side image of Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson
Fans have also long connected Swift’s ninth studio album, Evermore, to Dickinson, noting that the release date – 10 December 2020 – was Dickinson’s birthday. Composite: Getty Images for TAS Rights Management, Culture Club

Taylor Swift is related to the poet Emily Dickinson, according to Ancestry.com, who shared the news in an exclusive report with NBC’s Today.

On Monday, the genealogy company divulged that “Swift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th-century English immigrant (Swift’s ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson’s sixth great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut)”.

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