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January 22, 2025

Broughton — Some Letters of the Wordsworth Family (1942)

Broughton, Leslie N., ed. Some Letters of the Wordsworth Family, Now First Published with a Few Unpublished Letters of Coleridge and Southey and Others. (Cornell Studies in English, vol. 32.) Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1942.

“In December 1940 the Wordsworth Collection of the Cornell University Library was fortunate in securing from the firm of Sotheby in London forty-three letters from Wordsworth and members of his family to George Huntly Gordon, nearly all of which hitherto have remained unpublished” (p. vii).

Frequent references to Dorothy Wordsworth and several of her letters; see index.

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Digital copy: Internet Archive.

January 21, 2025

Boden — Matrilineal Journalism (1998)

Boden, Helen. “Matrilineal Journalism: Mary and Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1820 Continental Tours and the Female Sublime.” Women’s Writing 5.3 (1998): 329–352.

“This article introduces Mary Wordsworth as a travel writer, and contributes to the growing debate about the ‘female sublime’ by suggesting how the sublime is used, in slightly different ways, by Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth to interrogate the nature of writing and representation.”

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Branch — Reading the Earth (1998)

Branch, Michael P., Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, and Scott Slovic, eds. Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1998.

See Robert Mellin, “Dorothy Wordsworth, Ecology, and the Picturesque,” pp. 67–78.

Copy: Library of Congress.

January 21, 2025

Brinkley — Romantic Revisions (1992)

Brinkley, Robert, and Keith Hanley, eds. Romantic Revisions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

See Pamela Woof, “Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals: The Patterns and Pressures of Composition,” pp. 169–90.

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January 21, 2025

Bermingham — Landscape and Ideology (1986)

Bermingham, Ann. Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740–1860. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1986.

Digital version: Internet Archive.

Just occasional references to Dorothy Wordsworth.

January 21, 2025

Beer — Coleridge, the Wordsworths (1977)

Beer, John. “Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and the State of Trance.” Wordsworth Circle 8.2 (Spring, 1977): 121–38.

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Bateson — Wordsworth (1954)

Bateson, F. W. Wordsworth: A Re-Interpretation. New York and London: Longmans, Green, 1954.

Extensive references to Dorothy Wordsworth; see index.

Copy: Library of Congress.

Digital copy: Internet Archive.

January 20, 2025January 29, 2025

Woof — Dorothy Wordsworth: Story-teller (2003)

Woof, Pamela. “Dorothy Wordsworth: Story-teller.” Wordsworth Circle 34.2 (Spring, 2003): 103–10.

“Dorothy Wordsworth’s way of telling a story was to relate what happened, to tell it how it was. [. . .] She wrote only when she had to” (p. 103).

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January 20, 2025

Orestano — Lady Gardeners (2023)

Orestano, Francesca, and Michael Vickers, eds. Lady Gardeners: Seeds, Roots, Propagation, from England to the Wider World. Summertown, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023.

See chap. 2, Anna Rudelli, “Dorothy Wordsworth: A Romantic Garden in the Lake District,” pp. 16–25.

January 20, 2025

Newlyn — Dorothy Wordsworth’s Experimental Style (2007)

Newlyn, Lucy. “Dorothy Wordsworth’s Experimental Style.” Essays in Criticism 57.4 (October 2007): 325–49.