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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.
- February 28, 1833, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
- August 31, 1899 (aged 66), Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson was born in 1833 and died in 1899, two years after her sister Emily. She was the practical and social sister who managed the family and the household, and who shared Emily's love of flowers and cats. She also published Emily's poems and letters, and supported her artistic and literary ambitions.
Learn about the poet's family and friends, including Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, her sister and confidante. Explore their relationships, influences, and legacies through letters, poems, and photos.
Martha Dickinson Bianchi remembered her aunt Lavinia as a realist with a thoroughgoing “dread of cant and all conventional religious conversation” (Bianchi, “Life Before Last,” 291). She “wasted little time” upon spiritual matters except—in keeping with a general family characteristic—as it was reflected through Nature (Bianchi ...
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. Female28 February 1833–31 August 1899 • LH5R-6SX. 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 Norcross, was 28. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870.
Lavinia "Vinnie" Norcross Dickinson was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson.
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.