Wu, Duncan, ed. A Companion to Romanticism. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
See James A. Butler, “Travel Writing,” pp. 393-400.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Coe — Wordsworth and the Literature of Travel (1953)
Coe, Charles Norton. Wordsworth and the Literature of Travel. New York: Bookman Associates, 1953.
Scattered references to Dorothy Wordsworth; see pp. 19, 29–32, 47–48, 82–83.
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Kappes — Fashioning a Voice of Her Own (2009)
Kappes, Gabrielle A. F. “Fashioning a Voice of Her Own: The Poetics of Place in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Poetry, Narratives, and Travel Writing.” Honors thesis, Wheaton College, 6 May 2009.
Contents: Introduction — Chapter 1. Rooting Poetic Voice in Landscape: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Poetry — Chapter 2. The “Inner Histories” of Grasmere: Community as Archive in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Narrative of George and Sarah Green — Chapter 3. Mapping Foreign Lands: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writing as the Creative Process — Coda.
Copy: Web.
Boden — Matrilineal Journalism (1998)
Boden, Helen. “Matrilineal Journalism: Mary and Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1820 Continental Tours and the Female Sublime.” Women’s Writing 5.3 (1998): 329–352.
“This article introduces Mary Wordsworth as a travel writer, and contributes to the growing debate about the ‘female sublime’ by suggesting how the sublime is used, in slightly different ways, by Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth to interrogate the nature of writing and representation.”
Hammack — Imperfect Notices (May 2018)
Hammack, E. R. “‘Imperfect Notices’: The 1820 Continental Journal of Mary Wordsworth.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37.1 (May 2028): 91–110.
Abstract: “Through a close reading of Mary Wordsworth’s 1820 Continental travel journal, this essay challenges her peripheral status in studies of the Wordsworth writing circle. It offers a formalist analysis of the text, demonstrating the qualities and aspects of Mary’s writing that contribute to the importance of her journal in relation to the other literary endeavors of the tour. Mary’s writing, with its elliptical style and panoramic descriptions, reveals a sophisticated and imaginatively creative mind, one that was an equal participant in the coterie of the tour’s writers, including Henry Crabb Robinson and Dorothy Wordsworth. This essay seeks to free the journal from its critical relegation to a mere resource for William Wordsworth’s Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, instead approaching the journal on its own terms. The analysis calls for further consideration of Mary’s journals in relation to contexts of travel writing, romantic narrative, and women’s writing.”
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