Dugas, Kristine Ann. “Literary Journals: Explorations in a Private Literary Form.” Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1984.
“The study focusses on three nineteenth-century journal writers–Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The chapters represent three tendencies in journal composition. . . . The chapters on Dorothy Wordsworth represent those journals which best reveal both the emergence of the metaphoric from the literal and the psychodynamics of a woman writer’s creativity. Wordsworth’s early journals reveal how the course of her imaginative writing was eventually deflected by the informal nature of her work, by its collaborative and exploratory genesis, and by its deliberately contextual design.”
Dorothy Wordsworth 