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} background: #C70039; When Emily died in May 1886, Vinnie burned her sisters correspondence, as requested, but to her amazement discovered hundreds of poems about which Emily had given no instructions. .category #page-title { Try again. } border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; .rt-tpg-container .layout1 .rt-holder .rt-detail .read-more a { #footer-widgets .widget p { This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. border-radius: 4px; } } body.category article.post .entry-header .entry-thumbnail { Fanny was also involved in theater and worked as a librarian at the Harvard Divinity School Library, a role that was uncommon for women at the time. .pum-overlay button a { One came the way that I came And wore my past year's . } font-weight: normal;
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} Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (February 28, 1833 August 31, 1899) was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson. .border-right { .home #education h4 { } } .rt-tpg-container .layout1 .rt-holder .rt-detail .read-more { right: 0;
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