background-image: none !important; color: white; line-height: 1.2; You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. /* HEADINGS */ #page-wrapper .special-notice h3.widget-title { font: 400 26px "Quattrocento Sans"; #page-wrapper .special-notice { text-align: left; The magnitude of Dickinson's love for her cousins is evident in the simple, last letter the poet wrote before her death: "Little Cousins, / Called back./Emily".It is reported by Carol Ives that the 1860 census for Boston, Ma. .slick-next:focus { } There was a problem getting your location. background: #C70039; .search-results h1#page-title { font: 400 26px "Quattrocento Sans" !important; } margin-bottom: 20px; } } display: flex; Death: April 17, 1860 (48) Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. margin: 0 0 .75em 0; Sewall, Richard B. display: flex; .rt-tpg-container .layout1 .rt-holder .rt-detail .read-more { text-transform: none; First published in The Single Hound in 1914. . } width: 100% !important; text-align: left; padding: 20px 40px 25px; color: #650400; .poem-day.panel-widget-style { color: black; min-height: 270px; .pum-content { font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: .5em; margin-bottom: 0; We have set your language to } header .logo { #footer-widgets .widget p { #secondary .widget.advanced-sidebar-menu .dashicons { #commentform label { Fanny and Loo, as Emily affectionately called them, are considered to have been some of Dickinson's closest friends. border-radius: 4px; } letter-spacing: .025em; Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross, 1833-1899; Dickinson, Susan Huntington, 1830-1913; . } height: auto; .home #education h4 a { #page-wrapper h1, #page-wrapper h2 { @media (min-width: 769px) { } background: #999; Immediate Family: Daughter of Joel Warren Norcross, Esq and Betsey Norcross. text-transform: uppercase; .special-notice-for-post p { info@EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org. } box-shadow: none; border: 0; Further Reading: Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. @media (max-width: 780px) { background: white; overflow-y: auto; #footer-widgets aside.widget_search input#search-form::placeholder { You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. letter-spacing: -.025em; margin: 1em 0; .home .entry-content h4 { ".While the cousins never did live with their Dickinson relatives in Amherstthe two settled in Boston, their birthplaceFanny and Loo were beloved guests of the Homestead and The Evergreens. /* SECTION NAV */ border: 0; width: 60px; border: 0 !important; font-size: 1.85em !important; display: none; } Vinnies pride in her brilliant sister was as strong as her devotion to protecting her. .tribe-events-list .tribe-events-venue-details { } font-weight: 400 !important; max-width: 400px; } - Emily Dickinson to Louisa Norcross, about January 4, 1859. 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@media (max-width: 750px) { text-decoration: none; Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. 280 Main Street, Amherst MA 01002 A poet and novelist herself, Mattie inherited Emilys manuscripts and revived interest in her aunts poetry. text-shadow: 0 0 4px #000; .border-right { Try again later. In 1893, the seminary became Mount Holyoke College, where Lyons legacy is celebrated yearly at commencement. Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, Emily Dickinson. @media (max-width: 930px) { color: #a02121; } } } .pum-overlay button a { } text-decoration: none; padding-top: 1rem; } .entry-content .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text { .special-notice a { font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5; padding-right: 30px; Fanny and Loo, as Emily affectionately called them, are considered to have been some of Dickinson's closest friends . } border-radius: 4px; } #footer-widgets .ow-button-base a { } border: 1px solid white; } font: 400 65px/55px lustria; Mother of Lavinia Norcross; Francis L Norcross and Louisa Norcross. .rt-tpg-container .layout1 .rt-detail .post-meta .read-more a:hover { } From the Dickinson Room at Houghton Library, Harvard University. line-height: 1.2; width: 95%; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 3px solid #C70039; text-align: center; body.category #primary, Known to family and friends as "Austin", he was the older brother of the poet Emily Dickinson . 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