Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry

Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry is a digital scholarly edition that presents a selection of Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters, primarily from her correspondence with her sister-in-law and confidante, Susan Dickinson. Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Lara Vetter, with Ellen Louise Hart as consulting editor, this project offers an XML-based archive that includes seventy-four poems and letters dating from the 1850s to the end of Dickinson’s life. Each text is accompanied by a high-resolution digitized scan of the original holograph manuscript, featuring zoom functionality and a special light-box feature that allows users to view and compare related documents. The edition is fully searchable by date, genre, manuscript features, and full text, providing scholars and readers with a comprehensive resource to explore Dickinson’s intimate literary correspondence. This project is part of the Rotunda New Digital Scholarship series by the University of Virginia Press.