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Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> and legendary poet Emily Dickinson have more in common than their way with words. \u200bThe women are actually distant relatives, according to Ancestry.<\/p>\n The pop superstar and late poet are sixth cousins, three times removed, per Ancestry in a March 4, 2024, statement to Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cSwift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th century English immigrant (Swift\u2019s 9th great-grandfather and Dickinson\u2019s 6th great-grandfather, who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut),\u201d the genealogy company told the outlet.<\/p>\n \u200bThe report noted that Taylor\u2019s ancestors lived in Connecticut for six generations before settling in northwestern Pennsylvania, \u201cwhere they married into the Swift family line.\u201d<\/p>\n In genealogy, sixth cousins are people who share a great-great-great-great-great-grandparent. Three times removed means the cousins are three generations apart from each other.<\/p>\n Swifties have long speculated that Taylor\u2019s ninth studio album, Evermore<\/em>, was inspired by the late poet.<\/p>\n Fans\u2019 reasons for believing \u200bthe December 2020 album was influenced by Dickinson include the fact that it was announced on December 10, which is the prolific writer\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n One of Dickinson\u2019s poems, titled, \u201cOne Sister Have I in Our House,\u201d even ended with the line \u201cSue \u2013 forevermore!,\u201d further convincing fans that the album was a nod to the iconic wordsmith.<\/p>\n Years after the album\u2019s release, the Grammy winner actually referenced Dickinson directly in relation to her writing process.<\/p>\n \u201cIf my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson\u2019s great-grandmother while sewing a lace curtain,\u201d Taylor said while accepting Songwriter-Artist of the Decade at the Nashville Songwriter Awards in September 2022, \u201cthat\u2019s me writing in the quill genre.\u201d<\/p>\n Taylor also told Entertainment Weekly<\/em> in a December 2020 interview about her eighth studio album, Folklore<\/em>, that the album\u2019s cover came from a \u201cvery specific\u201d vision of a \u201cgirl sleepwalking through the forest in a nightgown in 1830, which \u200bhappens to be Dickinson\u2019s birth year.<\/p>\n The poetry-related bombshell comes on the heels of Taylor\u2019s February 2024 announcement of her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department<\/em><\/a>. Taylor shocked Swifties<\/a> with the album title and April 19, 2024, release date while accepting her 13th \u200bcareer Grammy during the event\u2019s February 4, 2024, broadcast.<\/p>\n Shortly after she accepted her Best Pop Vocal Album award for Midnights<\/em>, Taylor went backstage and shared the cover art for The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>, as well as a handwritten note, via social media.<\/p>\n The note, which many fans believe to \u200binclude lyrics from her upcoming album<\/a>, ended with, \u201cAll\u2019s fair in love and poetry \u2026 Sincerely, The Chairman of the Tortured Poets Department.\u201d<\/p>\n One day later, Taylor shared the 17-song track list for the album, which featured the words, \u201cI love you, it\u2019s ruining my life\u201d alongside the song titles.<\/p>\n She has since made several editions of the upcoming album, including one with a bonus track called \u201cThe Black Dog,\u201d available for preorder.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nHow Are Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson Related?<\/h2>\n
Taylor Swift\u2019s Possible References to Emily Dickinson<\/h2>\n
Taylor Swift\u2019s Quotes About Emily Dickinson<\/h2>\n
Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Tortured Poets Department\u2019 Album<\/h2>\n