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Polowetzky — Prominent Sisters (1996)

Polowetzky, Michael. Prominent Sisters: Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Sarah Disraeli. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996.

Publisher’s summary: “This work tells the fascinating story of three talented and energetic 19th-century women: Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth and Sarah Disraeli. Although little-remembered today, they were widely acknowledged in their own time as important and influential figures in British intellectual and artistic society. . . . Dorothy Wordsworth was not only the sister of the great poet but his lifelong intellectual companion. A noted diarist and critic, Dorothy Wordsworth was one of the founders of modern sociology and a major influence on her brother’s poetry.”

See Part Two: Dorothy Wordsworth — Chapter 3: A Pensive Young Lady”; Chapter 4: “Grasmere and Beyond.”

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Comitini — Vocational Philanthropy (2005)

Comitini, Patricia. Vocational Philanthropy and British Women’s Writing, 1790–1810: Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005.

Abstract (jacket): “Patricia Comitini’s study compels serious rethinking of how literature by women in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries should be read. Beginning with a description of the ways in which evolving conceptions of philanthropy were foundational to constructions of class and gender roles, Comitini argues that these changes enabled a particular kind of feminine benevolence that was linked to women’s work as writers.”

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Hegeman — Three English Bluestockings (1957)

Hegeman, Daniel V. “Three English Bluestockings Visit Germany.” Kentucky Foreign Language Quarterly 4.2 (1957): 57–73.

“Not least among the eighteenth century’s claims to distinction is the fact that it produced for the first time in human history the intellectual emancipation of woman on a large scale” (p. 57). The three women in the title are Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Elizabeth Robinson Montague, and Dorothy Wordsworth.

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Healey — Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge (2012)

Healey, Nicola. Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: The Poetics of Relationship. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Contents: Introduction: Dorothy Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge and the Poetics of Relationship — ‘Fragments from the universal’: Hartley Coleridge’s Poetics of Relationship — The Coleridge Family: Influence, Identity and Representation — ‘Who is the Poet?’: Hartley Coleridge, William Wordsworth and the ‘The Use of a Poet’ — Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals: Writing the Self, Writing Relationship — Sibling Conversations: The Wordsworthian Construction of Authorship — ‘My hidden life’: Dorothy, William and Poetic Identity — ‘The common life which is the real life’: Family Authorship and Identity.

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Esterhammer — Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland (2015)

Estherhammer, Angela, Dianne Piccitto, and Patrick Vincent, eds. Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland: New Prospects. (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print.) Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

“Among the authors discussed are Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Byron, Mary Shelley, James Boswell, Frances Brooke, Walter Scott, Felicia Hemans, and the Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer.” See Chap. 8, “Prints, Panoramas, and Picturesque Travel in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Tour on the Continent” by Pamela Buck.

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Pomeroy —  Little-known Sisters (1912)

Pomeroy, Sarah Gertrude. Little-known Sisters of Well-known Men. Boston: Dana Estes & Co. 1912.

See “Dorothy Wordsworth,” pp. 73–113. “For more than half a century, the name of Dorothy Wordsworth has been a symbol of ideal sisterhood and her life has furnished a standard by which those of other women placed in similar positions have been compared” (p. 75).

Copy: Library of Congress.

Digital copy: HathiTrust.