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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 (1833-1899), sister “[Emily] had to think – she was the only one of us who had that to do. Father believed; and mother loved; and Austin had Amherst; and I had the family to take care of.”
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 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.
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 ...
Emily Dickinson had two sisters, one inherited and the other acquired. The earliest was Vinnie: Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, born when Emily was two years old. The second was Sue: Susan Gilbert Dickinson, appropriated as friend when Emily was twenty, sanctioned as sister-in-law six years later. It might be said that sisterhood was with Vinnie ...
In 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).
