Welcome to the Emily Dickinson Lexicon Website

The EDLexicon portion of the website has been 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.

To access the EDL, you will need to install WordCruncher and download the Emily Dickinson Lexicon Suite.

  1. Install WordCruncher.
  2. Download the Emily Dickinson Lexicon Suite from the WordCruncher Bookstore.
  3. Open WordCruncher.
  4. Go to File > WordCruncher Bookstore.
  5. Find the Emily Dickinson Lexicon Suite.
  6. Click Install.
  7. Click Open.

The renovated 1844 edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (that Dickinson used for her poetic composition) is also available for free PC download through WordCruncher. We anticipate that Mac access to WordCruncher will be available in early 2027.