One of the most significant people in Emily Dickinsonโs life was her sister Lavinia. Born two years after Emily, on February 28, 1833, the two were raised as if of an age. [โฆ] Different as they were, the sisters were extremely close. While Austin was often exasperated by his youngest sister, the poet called her bond with Lavinia โearly, earnest, indissoluble.โ Indeed, from young womanhood, Emily depended upon Vinnieโs physical presence when engaged in social activities [โฆ] As she neared age thirty, the reclusive poet admitted, โVinnie has been all, so long, I feel the oddest fright at parting with her for an hour, lest a storm arise, and I go unsheltered.โ [โฆ] Vinnieโs pride in her brilliant sister was as strong as her devotion to protecting her. [โฆ] When Emily died in May 1886, Vinnie burned her sisterโs correspondence, as requested, but to her amazement discovered hundreds of poems about which Emily had given no instructions. Determined to share these with the world, Vinnie spent the next thirteen years successfully urging and cajoling others โ Susan Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the publishers Roberts Brothers โ to publish her sisterโs poems and letters. Without what Emily called Vinnieโs โinciting voice,โ we would know little or nothing of Dickinsonโs great lyric poetry. - The Emily Dickinson Museum
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