Her siblings were an older brother, Austin
, and a younger sister, Lavinia
. Neither knew that their sister wrote poetry.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf.
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Textual Production
Emily Dickinson
Poems by Emily Dickinson was published posthumously at the urging of Dickinson's sister Lavinia
, and sold far better than its publishers had expected.
Buckingham, Willis J., editor. Emily Dickinson’s Reception in the 1890s: A Documentary History. University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Ford, Mark. “Pomenvylopes”. London Review of Books, Vol.
Dickinson, Emily. Further Poems of Emily Dickinson withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia. Editors Bianchi, Martha Dickinson and Alfred Leete Hampson, Little, Brown, and Co.