Biography
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 "Vinnie" Dickinson was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson. She was instrumental in achieving the posthumous publication of her sister's poems after having discovered the forty-odd manuscripts in which Emily had collected her work. Despite promising her sister that she would destroy all correspondence and personal papers, Vinnie sought to have her sister's poetry edited and published by two of Emily's personal correspondents, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Four years after Emily Dickinson's death, in 1890, Poems was published by Roberts Brothers, Boston. By the end of 1892, it had already been through eleven editions.
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