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Notes

¹ Volume 26, Number 2, 2017.

² Dickinson’s music book is available to view and download in.pdf format at https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/archival_objects/1787295. A forthcoming monograph by the esteemed musicologist George Boziwick, whose essays on the subject are discussed below, will appropriately situate the music book within a vibrant ethnomusicological discourse that includes, recently, Mark Slobin et al., Emily’s Songbook and Petra Meyer-Frazier, Bound Music, Unbound Women.

³ There has not yet been a monograph devoted to Dickinson and food, though like music it has been a topic of great interest to both scholars and public readers. On Dickinson and clothing, see Daneen Wardrop’s Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. On Dickinson and gardening, see Judith Farr, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Farr was also among the contributors to a high-quality scholarly facsimile of Dickinson’s herbarium. A similar project would be welcome for Dickinson’s bound sheet music volume, the subject of Boziwick’s forthcoming monograph, given its many interesting visual details and often-faint penciled markings.