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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 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 "Vinnie" Norcross Dickinson (February 28, 1833 – August 31, 1899) was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. 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 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.
Lavinia Norcross (1833–1899), known as Lavinia or Vinnie; She was also a distant cousin to Baxter Dickinson and his family, including his grandson the organist and composer Clarence Dickinson. By all accounts, young Dickinson was a well-behaved girl.
Matt Lauria as Ben Newton (season 1), a law clerk for Mr. Dickinson; Jessica Hecht as Aunt Lavinia (seasons 1–2), Emily Norcross Dickinson's sister, and the world-traveling widowed aunt of Emily, Austin, and Lavinia; Finn Jones as Samuel Bowles (season 2), the editor of the local paper, the Springfield Republican
Without what Dickinson called Vinnie’s “inciting voice” (L827), we would know little or nothing of her great poetry. Emily Dickinson to Charles H. Clark (L827), mid-June 1883, in The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 2:334. Photograph, 1896.
