Welcome to the Emily Dickinson Lexicon Website

Thank you for your patience as the Emily Dickinson Lexicon (EDL) website has been undergoing a maintenance transition. In the near future, the EDLexicon portion of the website will be transferred to a free downloadable concordance software, WordCruncher, with its dictionary materials including front matter, headwords, etymologies, definitions, citations, proper noun entries, reference lists, and so forth. The renovated 1844 edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (that Dickinson used for her poetic composition) is currently available for free PC download through WordCruncher (https://wordcruncher.com/). We anticipate that Mac access to WordCruncher will be available in late 2026.