Comitini, Patricia. ‘“More Than Half A Poet”: Vocational Philanthropy in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals.’” European Romantic Review 14.3 (2003): 307–22.
“The way criticism has treated Dorothy Wordsworth has all to do with the way she represents herself, her writing, and her brother in her journals. Scholars have labored to understand the function of the Grasmere Journal and of “Dorothy Wordsworth” as a representation of nineteenth-century womanhood. Whether characterizing her as a domestic subject, novice writer or helpmate, scholarship has focused primarily on her failure to realize herself, develop her talent, or establish her own home” (p. 307).
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