Evans, Bergen, and Hester Pinney. “Racedown and the Wordsworths.” Review of English Studies 8.29 (January 1932): 1–18.
An account of their stay in Dorset; frequent references to Dorothy Wordsworth.
Digital text: Internet Archive.
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.
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Just occasional references to Dorothy Wordsworth.
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.
Moorman — Wordsworth: Later Years (1965)
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803–1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
“This book is the second part of William Wordsworth, A Biography, of which the first part was published in 1957. As the present volume begins at the end of 1803, before the completion both of the Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood and of The Prelude, its earlier chapters are concerned with Wordsworth still at the height of his poetic power. But in tracing the figure of Wordsworth through middle life into old age I have never felt that he became a less vividly inspired poet than in his earlier years” (“Preface,” p. vii).
See index for very extensive references to Dorothy Wordsworth.
Review: F. W. Bateson, New York Review, 19 December 1966.
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Byatt — Unruly Times (1989)
Byatt, A. S. Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time. London: Hogarth Press, 1989.
Frequent references to Dorothy Wordsworth; see index.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital version: Internet Archive.
Batho — Later Wordsworth (1933)
Batho, Edith C. The Later Wordsworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1933.
Reprinted: New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.
Digital version (1963): Internet Archive.
“This study . . . is . . . an attempt to discover from the available evidence—Wordsworth’s own poems, prose-writings, letters, and the reports of those who came into immediate contact with him—what were his real opinions in the latter half of his life: how far they were in agreement with or in contradiction to those of the earlier half: the impression which he made upon his contemporaries: and his attitude towards them” (pp. vii–viii).
For references to Dorothy Wordsworth, see index.
Reviews: H. J. C. Grierson, Modern Language Review 29.2 (1934): 199–208; Edith J. Morley, Review of English Studies 10 (April 1938): 238–242.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Gittings — Dorothy Wordsworth (1985)
Gittings, Robert, and Jo Manton. Dorothy Wordsworth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
“The last scholarly biography of Dorothy Wordsworth, written by Ernest de Selincourt, appeared over fifty years ago. Despite the great merits of this work, a new Life must be needed to take into account much that has emerged in the past five decades, and, in particular, more recent editing and scholarship” (p. vii).
Contents: List of plates — 1. “Dear Aunt” — 2. “Poor Dolly” — 3. “The Oeconomy of Charity” — 4. “The character and virtues of my Brother” — 5. “The First Home” — 6. “Coleridge’s Society” — 7. “Lyrical Ballads”— 8. “Wild, sequestered valley” — 9. “Plenty of Business” — 10. “Either joy or sorrow” — 11. “My tears will flow” — 12. “I shall always date Grasmere” — 13. “Those innocent children” — 14. “The Ambleside Gentry” — 15. “Dear Antelope” — 16. “We all want Miss W.” — 17. “This quiet room” — 18. “Oftener merry than sad” — Appendix One — Appendix Two — Notes — Bibliography — Index.
Reviews: Joyce Johnson, Washington Post, Book World, 1 September 1985, p. 5; Leon Waldoff, Modern Language Review 83.1 (1988): 157.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Higonnet — British Women Poets (1966)
Higonnet, Margaret R., ed. British Women Poets of the 19th Century. New York: Meridian, 1966.
See “Dorothy Wordsworth,” pp. 175–79: includes “A Sketch,” “Grasmere – a Fragment,” “After-recollection at Sight of the Same Cottage,” and “Floating Island.”
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Andrews — Search for the Picturesque (1989)
Andrews, Malcolm. The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760–1800. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press; Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1989.
For references to DW, see index.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Beatty — William Wordsworth of Dove Cottage (1964)
Beatty, Frederika. William Wordsworth of Dove Cottage: A Study of the Poet’s Most Productive Decade, June 1797–May 1807. New York: Bookman Associates, Inc., 1964.
Extensive references to Dorothy Wordsworth and her journals.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
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