With Love, Emily

Abstract The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, is a major event in Dickinson studies and a monumental achievement of scholarship. The editors have retranscribed, redated, renumbered, resorted among all known correspondence, posted and drafted, and have meticulously annotated what comes to 1,304 letters. These annotations report on the many social and public events that make up the world Dickinson inhabited, widening our sense of Dickinson from what has long been a focus on inward, private experience. Dickinson emerges as a vital, major voice addressing the circumstances, events, culture, and public life of her period. This includes questions of gender, of the Civil War, of material culture, and of religious transformations, in a poetics that remains compelling and challenging.