page_title: Lavinia Norcross Dickinson
hierarchical_section_title: Lavinia Norcross Dickinson
caption_attribution_description: English: Emily Elizabeth, Austin, and Lavoinia Dickinson by Otis Allen Bullard, oil on canvas, ca. 1840, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: Lavinia Norcross Dickinson was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson.
  Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson 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.
  Vinnie was the youngest of the Dickinson siblings born to Edward Dickinson and his wife Emily Norcross in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never married and remained at the Dickinson Homestead until her death.
context_section_description: Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (February 28, 1833 – August 31, 1899) was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson.
  Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson 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.
  Vinnie was the youngest of the Dickinson siblings born to Edward Dickinson and his wife Emily Norcross in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never married and remained at the Dickinson Homestead until her death.
caption: The Dickinson children (Lavinia on the right), ca. 1840. From the Dickinson Room at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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