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Recovering Dorothy : the hidden life of Dorothy Wordsworth / Polly Atkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atkin, Polly, author.
- Series:
- Women writers rediscovered
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, English--18th century--Biography.
- Women authors, English.
- Women authors, English--19th century--Biography.
- Women poets, English--18th century--Biography.
- Women poets, English.
- Women poets, English--19th century--Biography.
- Health.
- Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
- Wordsworth, Dorothy.
- Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855--Diaries.
- Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855--Health.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Diaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Salford : Saraband, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth<U+2019>s later life and work and the impact of her disability -- allowing her to step out from her brother<U+2019>s shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798-1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother<U+2019>s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother<U+2019>s shadow and back into her own life story." -- Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Many Dorothies
- 2. Dorothy and the Creative Household
- 3. Five Years of Sickness & Of Pain
- 4. Sickbed Consolations
- 5. Lost Fragments Shall Remain
- 6. Undiagnosing Dorothy
- 7. Dorothy's Symptoms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1913393178
- 9781913393175
- OCLC:
- 1263276092
- Publisher Number:
- 99991672767
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