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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 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.
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 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. Susan Huntington Dickinson (1830-1913) was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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 Norcross, was 28. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 31 August 1899, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66, and ...
