The latest addition to the Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Collection from Rotunda

Emily Dickinson's Correspondences

Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Lara Vetter

ISBN 978-0-8139-2378-9

 

Unpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted most—through her letters. This XML-based archive brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily’s correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript. These images have zoom functionality as well as a special light-box feature that allows users to view and compare constellations of related documents. Users may search by date, genre, manuscript features, and full text. Dating from the 1850s to the end of Dickinson’s life, the work collected here shows all the characteristics of the poet’s mature art.

Rotunda is made possible by generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the President's Office of the University of Virginia

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Martha Nell Smith, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, is co-editor of Open Me Slowly: Emily Dickinon's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Lara Vetter is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City.