Jerram — Dorothy Wordsworth’s Illness (2021)

Jerram, Tim. “Dorothy Wordsworth’s Illness—Psychiatry in Literature.” British Journal of Psychiatry 218.2 (February 2021): 87.

“. . . her condition was fully described both by her family and by literary visitors, and from her own Journals and the many descriptions of her by William and their literary acquaintances we know much about her premorbid state. From these we can ascribe many of her health problems to thyroid disease.”

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