Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources:

F    References to poems Franklin's edition of the fascicles will use this initial and cite fascicle number only. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard U P, 1981.

H    Manuscripts at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, will be indicated by this initial and the library catalog letter and/or number.

L    References to texts in Johnson's edition of the letters will use this initial and cite his number. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard U P, 1958.

ML    References to Franklin's edition will use these intials and cite page numbers. The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson. Amherst, MA: Amherst College P, 1986.

P    References to texts in Johnson's edition of the poems will use this initial and cite his number. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. 3 vols. Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard U P, 1955.

Franklin, R. W. The Editing of Emily Dickinson. Madison, Milwaukee, & London: U of Wisconsin P, 1967.

Hart, Ellen Louise. "The Elizabeth Whitney Putnam Manuscripts and New Strategies for Editing Emily Dickinson's Letters." The Emily Dickinson Journal 4.1 (1995): 44-74.

---. "The Encoding of Homoerotic Desire: Emily Dickinson's Letters and Poems to Susan Dickinson, 1850-1886." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 9.2 (Fall 1990): 251-272.

Higginson, T. W., and Mabel Loomis Todd, eds. Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1890.

--- and Henry Walcott Boynton, eds. A Reader's History of American Literature. Boston, New York & Chicago: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903.

Howe, Susan. The Birth-mark: unsettling the wilderness in American literary history. Hanover & London: Wesleyan U P, 1993.

King, Katie. "The Politics of the Oral and the Written," Theory in its Feminist Travels: Conversation in U.S. Women's Movements. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1994.

McGann, Jerome. "Emily Dickinson's Visible Language." The Emily Dickinson Journal 2.2 (1993): 40- 51.

Smith, Martha Nell. "The Importance of a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's Creative Work." The Emily Dickinson Journal 4.1 (1995): 75-85.

Werner, Marta. Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. Ann Arbor & London: U of Michigan P, 1995.