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Lavinia "Vinnie" Norcross Dickinson (February 28, 1833 – August 31, 1899) was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson. Vinnie was the youngest of the Dickinson siblings born to Edward Dickinson and his wife Emily Norcross in Amherst, Massachusetts. She shared a name with her Aunt Lavinia.
Lavinia Dickinson died at age 66 of an “enlarged heart” on August 31, 1899. Her health and spirits suffered greatly the last two years from the strain of the lawsuit with Mabel Loomis and David Todd, the death of her nephew Ned, and recriminations that flew between the Homestead and The Evergreens.
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (1833-1899), sister. One of the most significant people in Emily Dickinson’s life was her sister Lavinia, two years younger, and by Emily’s account, the more practical of the two.
When Lavinia Norcross Dickinson was born on 28 February 1833, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Edward Dickinson, was 30 and her mother, Emily Elizabeth Norcross, was 28. She died on 31 August 1899, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in West Cemetery, Amherst ...
Lavinia "Vinnie" Norcross Dickinson (February 28, 1833 – August 31, 1899) was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson.
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. Dagurreotype portrait, 1852, by J.L. Lovell. Dickinson family photographs, MS Am 1118.99b (27). Houghton Library, Harvard University. In her teen years, a wave of religious revivals moved through New England and through Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which she attended for a single year.
Lavinia Dickinson. An often unacknowledged player in the long road to the publication of Emily Dickinson’s poetry is her younger sister, Lavinia, or “Vinnie” as she was known to friends and family. Vinnie’s pride in her brilliant sister was as strong as her devotion to protecting her.
Her sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, was born in 1833. All three children attended the one-room primary school in Amherst and then moved on to Amherst Academy, the school out of which Amherst College had grown. The brother and sisters’ education was soon divided.
I n a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson following the publication of Emily Dickinson’s Poems in 1890, Austin Dickinson writes that his sister Lavinia was “expecting to become famous herself ” in relation to Emily’s poetry (10 Oct. 1890, 56).
Born 3 July 1804, Emily Norcross was the third child and first daughter of Joel and Betsey Fay Norcross.5 The grand- father, William Norcross, had died the year before, leaving his widow, Sarah Marsh Norcross, who ultimately shared her spacious country house with her eldest son, his wife, and. their young children.
