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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 Dickinson died at age 66 of an “enlarged heart” on August 31, 1899. Her health and spirits suffered greatly the last two years from the strain of the lawsuit with Mabel Loomis and David Todd, the death of her nephew Ned, and recriminations that flew between the Homestead and The Evergreens.
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.
To give just a few examples, after her sister Lavinia’s birth, Dickinson stayed with her mother’s sister, Aunt Lavinia Norcross, for about a month; she stayed with the same aunt, and uncle Loring Norcross, for about a month in 1844 to recover from the death of Sophia Holland, a close friend and relative.
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).
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.
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.
