A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Harper, George McLean. Spirit of Delight. London: Ernest Benn, 1928.
Griggs, E. L. Hartley Coleridge: His Life and Work. London: University of London Press, 1929.
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Corkran, Alice. The Romance of Woman’s Influence: St. Monica, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Guyon, Caroline Herschel, Mary Unwin, Dorothy Wordsworth and Other Mothers, Wives, Sisters, and Friends who Have Helped Great Men. London: Blackie and Sons, 1906.
See pp. 185–214. “To speak of Dorothy Wordsworth is to speak of a poet in prose as remarkable as William Wordsworth was a poet in verse. But it is not of Dorothy, the writer of the journal, from which many a painter might paint scenes of surpassing beauty, from which many a poet might have derived inspiration,—it is not so much of this Dorothy that I shall speak, as of Dorothy, the sister, the inspirer of her brother, his friend and companion” ( p. 185).
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Armour, Richard W., and Raymond F. Howes. Coleridge the Talker: A Series of Contemporary Descriptions and Comments. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1940.
See “Dorothy Wordsworth: 1771–1855,” pp. 373–76.
“Coleridge has described the sympathetic union of himself and William and Dorothy Wordsworth as that of ‘three persons and one soul.’ Not the least person in that union was Dorothy, who supplied Coleridge with the companionship and understanding of which his wife was incapable. In their walks in the Quantocks she guided and sharpened his observation of nature, and was delighted with his responsiveness. On their first meeting, which occurred at Racedown in the spring of 1797, they were at once drawn to each other” (p. 373).
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Dorothy Wordsworth 