... In 'Author's Voyage down the Rhine (Thirty Years Ago)', William writes nostalgically of a landscape glimpsed in passing and never seen again: 'We saw the living Landscapes of the Rhine,|Reach after reach, salute us and depart.'80 The ...
This biography is the first to treat Dorothy Wordsworth as a person in her own right, a woman of problems and contradictions who emerges as more strange and wayward than convention has portrayed.