Veevers, Marian. Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility: The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018.
Contents: Prologue: The inward secrets of our hearts — Part 1: Gentlemen’s daughters, Little prattlers among men, Original sin, Fashionably educated and left without a fortune — Part 2: Love and friendship, Ladies of the rectory, A happy command of language, Considering the future, Falling in love, Betrayal, Journeys, brothers, freedom and confinement, A house of my own — Part 3: An experiment in liberty, My own darling child, A small revolution, Poetry and prose, A maid whom there were none to praise, Homecoming and exile, Exercised to constraint — Our affections do rebel, Very capable of loving, Marriage: The settlement we should aim at — Part 4: Writing and publication: My father cannot provide for us, Another exile, another homecoming — Part 5: Beyond 1809 — Epilogue: A natural sequel to an unnatural beginning? — Appendix 1: Stanzas from The Minstrel — Appendix 2: The Forest-Epode — Appendix 3: Among All the Lovely Things My Love Had Been.
Review: Frances Wilson, “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” Times Literary Supplement, 11 August 2017.
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