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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.
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 ...
One of the most amazing persons in Emily Dickinson’s life was her sister Lavinia. Born two years after Emily, on February 28, 1833, the two were raised as if of an age. They began attending Amherst Academy together in the spring of 1841 at ages ten and eight, and shared a room and a bed into their twenties.
The Emily Dickinson collection includes original poems, manuscripts, and letters from Dickinson to family and friends, spanning her life from 1830 to 1886, as well as numerous rough drafts and fragments of her poems. The collection also includes material from Dickinson scholars and early editors: Mabel Loomis Todd, Millicent Todd Bingham, and ...
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson was born 28 February 1833 in Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States to Edward Dickinson (1803-1874) and Emily Elizabeth Norcross (1804-1882) and died 31 August 1899 Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes.
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 Norcross Dickinson (1833-1899), sister of the Emily Dickinson, attended Amherst Academy, and Wheaton Family Seminary in Ipswich. Though she visited friends and relatives more frequently than her mother or her sister, she too remained at home for the most part.
