One of the goals of the Emma B. Andrews project is to re-create Emma’s network of correspondents and her social circle on a digital platform. Working collaboratively with student interns, I have been been researching biographical information about the individuals Emma interacts with and describes in her diaries, and the preliminary results are displayed in our ‘Emmapedia‘. This resource is constantly being updated with the aim of creating a searchable biographical index, linked dynamically to the encoded diary and other related historical material.