RecognitionLavinia was made to promise Emily that if she died first, Lavania was to burn all of her papers. Lavinia who never married stayed at the Homestead until her own death in 1899. Lavinia discovered hundreds of Emily's unpublished poems in her desk after her death. She believed they were too profound to be burnt, instead she collated and published them together and they became wildly successful and are still considered a classic to this day.
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