Alexander, Meena. “Dorothy Wordsworth: The Grounds of Writing.” Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 14.3 (1988): 195–210.
“After the vivid, almost miraculous years of the Alfoxden Journal (1798) and the Grasmere Journals (1800–1803) Dorothy Wordsworth settled into tasks of helping keep house for her brother and sister-in law’s growing family. Domestic duties sometimes accumulated. . . The daily round in the home she shares with her brother and his family deprives her of a chance to sit quietly, collect her thoughts and feel that at least a short while she possesses herself” (p. 195).
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