Editorial: Two-and-a-half centuries after her birth the writer – and sister of the more famous William – still has much to teach us.
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A new biography of Dorothy Wordsworth tightens its focus to the crucial few years when she kept her famous Grasmere Journals.
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Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800,...
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I was in the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere on Friday 30th August to see the Wordsworth Trust's fascinating exhibition, “Dorothy Wordsworth:...
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A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the romantics.
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From Dorothy Wordsworth's early 19th-century journals to Carolyn Finney's interrogation of "wilderness is whiteness" — these women changed...
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Lucy Newlyn's fascinating mix of literary criticism and biography celebrates sibling love and the nurturing power of nature.
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Charles Lamb often complained of not being able to think on his own. “I dare not think, lest I wrong,” he told Dorothy Wordsworth in 1805,...
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All literary biographies present choices to their authors. How much should one give a documentary, day-by-day account of a life that, as in Wordsworth's...
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â?oThe second half of William Wordsworthâ?Ts life was the longest, dullest decline in literary history.â?? Jonathan Bate must be Wordsworthâ...
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