Lavinia Norcross Dickinson [SEP] sister
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson
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
- Jennifer Ehle as Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson, Emily's sister
- Rose Williams as Young Vinnie Dickinson
- Duncan Duff as Austin Dickinson, Emily's brother
- Benjamin Wainwright as Young Austin Dickinson
- Joanna Bacon as Emily Norcross Dickinson, Emily's mother
- Keith Carradine as Edward Dickinson, Emily's father
- Jodhi May as Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Emily's sister-in-law
- Daan and Eve Cools as Edward Dickinson, son of Austin and Susan, Emily's nephew
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