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...goodnight, never gave them any sign of affection, would leave the table if Emily talked too much or too well, he once startled Amherst by ringing the firebell because he wanted the citizenry to observe a beautiful sunset. Emily's brother left home but Emily and her sister Lavinia were life-long sacrifices on the altar of filial piety. For years Emily never went outside the garden gate, but all the time she wrote poems secretly, lived intensely her seismographic life. She was small, with dark reddish hair, eyes the color of brown sherry; not pretty, excessively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amherst, Brave Amherst | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...which were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success before this one was Lavinia in Hit the Deck. Her home is in Hollywood, where she has learned to apply her grease paint with water, to like "being alone with a good book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

FURTHER POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON ?Withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia; edited by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson?Little Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impregnable of Eye | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...biographer and niece, Martha Bianchi, avoided explicitness, displayed an understandable reticence in throwing too much light on the mystery. Her editor and sister, Lavinia, reluctantly surrendered The Complete Poems, in 1922. But their completeness is gainsaid by the present, "little unexplored package" of 150 poems, some of them pondering the emptiness left by love, more of them blithely magnifying the details that filled her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impregnable of Eye | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Lavinia Abercrombie Lovett, wife of famed Chairman Robert Scott Lovett of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad; in Locust Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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