Emily Dickinson was not identified as the author on any of the poems, or the one letter, published in her lifetime.
These three nineteenth-century editions were the first volumes of Dickinson’s poems to reach the public, and they established her as a major American poet. Following the conventions of the day, the editors supplied titles to poems, regularized capitalization and punctuation, and sometimes changed words and deleted entire stanzas. Todd was acquainted with Dickinson in Amherst, receiving several notes from her but never meeting her face-to-face; and she had an intimate relationship with the poet’s brother, Austin Dickinson. Higginson, a minister and popular writer, corresponded with Dickinson over many years, offering her literary encouragement and advice. All three volumes are included in EDA.
Collected by Todd with the assistance of Lavinia Dickinson, the edition is highly selective and heavily edited in a style typical of its time.
Bianchi, daughter of Austin and Susan Dickinson, added to the number of Dickinson poems available to the public by publishing a large number of the poems sent by her aunt to her mother, Susan Gilbert Huntington Dickinson. Susan Dickinson was a friend of Emily Dickinson before she became her sister-in-law and, as the recipient of more than 250 poems, was an important source of literary feedback. She is the only correspondent for whom Dickinson changed a poem. See “Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem” in the Dickinson Electronic Archive. This edition in included in EDA.
This edition combined the poems published in the three nineteenth-century editions edited by Todd and Higginson with the poems published in The Single Hound, and added five previously unpublished poems. Bianchi removed the titles given to the poems by Todd and Higginson.
Includes 180 previously unpublished poems, and publishes eight poems in full that were previously published in part.
A revised and enlarged edition of Todd’s 1894 edition.
Includes more than 650 previously unpublished Dickinson poems.
Bingham, daughter of one of Dickinson’s first editors, Mabel Loomis Todd, offers her account of the rift between Todd and the Dickinson family over a plot of land bequeathed by the poet’s brother, Austin, to Todd; and gives a partial account of how this affected subsequent work on the poet.
Publication of the forty drafts and fragments not destroyed following Dickinson's death, and containing drafts of letters to Judge Otis P. Lord.
Includes 1,775 poems, arranged chronologically, with variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. Transcripts and notes for individual poems are included within EDA.
The first attempt to collect all extant Dickinson letters, it includes transcriptions of 1,049 letters addressed to approximately 100 correspondents.
Black-and-white reproductions of Dickinson’s fascicles and sets, which are held by Harvard University and Amherst College, with one sheet at the Library of Congress. Digital color reproductions of these same materials are included in EDA.
Includes facsimiles of the three passionate letters written by Dickinson to a still-unidentified “Master.”
A facsimile edition, with transcriptions, of a group of forty late drafts and fragments known as the "Lord letters." See also Ravished Slates: Re-visioning the “Lord Letters,” A Scholarly Exploration of Material Evidence.
Includes 1,789 poems, arranged chronologically, with transcriptions of variant manuscript versions of poems. Transcripts, notes for individual poems, and poem publication history are included within EDA.
Derived from Franklin’s 1998 Variorum Edition, it provides an edited, single version of each poem.
A searchable database of the manuscript fragments left by Emily Dickinson now at Amherst College Library.
Seventy-four poems, letters, and letter-poems from Dickinson's correspondence with her sister-in-law Susan Dickinson.
Three of the partner institutions in this initial phase – Amherst College, Boston Public Library, and Harvard's Houghton Library – have much Dickinson material not yet included in EDA.
The Emily Dickinson Museum comprises two historic houses in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts, associated with the poet Emily Dickinson and members of her family during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Homestead was the birthplace and home from 1855–1886 of the poet. The Evergreens, next door, was home to her brother Austin Dickinson, his wife Susan, and their three children. The Museum provides biographical information about the poet and her family at http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emilys_biography.
Includes the personal papers of Martha Dickinson Bianchi, the poet’s niece (including family and editorial correspondence, diaries, notes, worksheets, photographs, and other materials); the personal papers of Alfred Leete Hampson and his wife, Mary Landis Hampson (from whom the Houghton Library Dickinson Collection was purchased); and the 3,000 volume family library from The Evergreens, the Austin Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts, of which Houghton's Dickinson family library was a part. The Barton Levi St. Armand Collection of Dickinson Family Papers (listed as “Dickinson Papers”) includes letters of Austin, Susan, and Ned Dickinson. A browsable list of collections is provided.
The Dickinson Collection consists of four autograph poems and 17 autograph letters, and an additional ca. 7,000 items, including family correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, contemporary artwork and prints, and more. An Emily Dickinson Finding Aid is available.
The collection includes the papers of Mabel Loomis Todd, early editor of Emily Dickinson; her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, who gave the Dickinson manuscripts in the Todd family's possession to Amherst College; as well as Todd family photographs and memorabilia. The four Dickinson poems, and transcripts for poems for which the original does not survive, are not included in the first release of EDA but will be added shortly.
The Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 is a scholarly resource showcasing the possibility of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and exploring the potential of the digital environment to reveal new interpretive material, cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts, besides previously ungathered writings of Susan Dickinson. The site includes a bibliography of secondary sources on Dickinson at http://www.emilydickinson.org/bibliography.
This is a list of approximately 600 books owned by the Dickinson family and published before Emily Dickinson’s death in 1886. The list includes both books now housed at the Houghton Library, Harvard University; and additional books owned by the family, some of which are now at Brown University. While many of these books contain markings, only a few can be directly associated with the poet. Color digital facsimiles of many of the volumes are available, including the poet’s Bible, the family's two-volume Webster's dictionary ( vol 1. and vol 2.), and many volumes of poetry and fiction.
Published twice yearly by EDIS, it includes short articles about Dickinson and current Dickinson scholarship, as well as reviews and news.
The journal of the Emily Dickinson International Society, it is the major source for current scholarship on Dickinson, publishing writing by young scholars as well as work by those established in the field. Licensed resource; subscription required.
The collection includes 218 artworks from the home of the poet’s brother and sister-in-law, Austin and Susan Dickinson.
Includes a number of juxtaposed documents, transcribed and extracted from manuscripts and printed sources, ordered in a single chronology.