Quotes About Lavinia

Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements One - Richard Two - Miss Lavinia Would Like to Have a Word with You Three - Make No Misteak!

Lavinia insisted that Todd's preface should include a statement that Emily Dickinson's sister had collected the letters. Todd, unaccustomed to submit on demand, persuaded Roberts Brothers to reprint the letters with a different version of that sentence. It was to say that Emily Dickinson's sister had asked Mabel Loomis Todd to collect her letters, implying Todd alone had done the job.

Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.

In the middle of the dinner, a man seated next to Lavinia put his hand on her leg. She put her cigarette out on his hand. The glittering conversation continued

Turnus was distraught with love and fixed his eyes on Lavinia.

Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.