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Glendening, John. The High Road: Romantic Tourism, Scotland, and Literature, 1720–1820. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Chapter 4 is devoted to Dorothy Wordsworth’s Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, 1803 and her brother’s Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, A.D. 1803.
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“The Guardian View on Dorothy Wordsworth: A Rare Achievement.” Guardian, 19 December 2021.
“She has been described as ‘probably the most remarkable and the most distinguished of English prose writers who never wrote a line for the general public’; many have also argued that she directly influenced the course of English poetry.”
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For letters in response to the article, see Guardian, 23 December 2021 [Web].
Ross, Marlon B. “Naturalizing Gender: Woman’s Place in Wordsworth’s Ideological Landscape.” English Literary History 53.2 (Summer, 1986): 391–410.
For references to Dorothy Wordsworth, see pp. 396, 406, 408.
Rogers, John E., Jr. “‘Dearest Friend’: A Study of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals.” Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1973): 1632–A33A (Ph.D. thesis, Pennsylvania State University).
Contents: I. Companion Never Lost: Introduction; II. The Gentler Spring; III. Thy Wild Eyes: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Vision; IV. The Art of Dorothy Wordsworth; V. Wordsworth and His Exquisite Sister; VI. The Meaning of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals; VIII. Conclusion; Bibliography.
Fay, Jessica. “Rhythm and Repetition at Dove Cottage.” Philological Quarterly 97.1 (2018) 73–95.
“In the year 1845, under the influence of his Tractarian friend Frederick William Faber, William Wordsworth added a number of new poems to his sonnet series on the history of the Church in England, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. These additional poems celebrating a sequence of Anglican rites – including ‘The Marriage Ceremony,’ ‘Thanksgiving after Childbirth’ (Churching), “Visitation of the Sick,’ and the ‘Funeral Service’ – effectively marked Wordsworth as an Oxford Movement sympathizer” (p. 73).
The article offers an extended treatment of the religious views of William and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Jarvis, Robin. Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
“Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel is an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing. Robin Jarvis here reconstructs the scene of walking, both in Britain and on the Continent, in the 1790s, and analyses the mentality and motives of the early pedestrian traveller. He then discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of major Romantic writers, focusing especially on William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats, Hazlitt and Hunt. In readings which engage current debates around literature and travel, landscape aesthetics, ecocriticism, the poetics of gender, and the materiality of Romantic discourse, Jarvis demonstrates how walking became not only a powerful means of self-enfranchisement but also the focus of restless textual energies.”
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Ketcham, Carl H. “Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals, 1824–1835.” Wordsworth Circle 9.1 (Winter, 1978): 3–16.
“. . . Dorothy Wordsworth [in 1824] began keeping a daily record of her life at Rydal Mount and on her extended visits away from home – a record which lasted, with occasional interruptions, until her mental collapse in 1835. These journals, mostly unpublished, have attracted little attention: they cover a period when Wordsworth’s craftsmanship was uneventfully self-assured; they are scrawled and rather difficult to read; and they have been given a bad press by de Selincourt, who disparaged them as terse and uninformative. It is true that they are often, in effect, notes toward a journal – reminders of daily events which were often enough routine, and whose details Dorothy felt no need to set down in full. But they provide a faithful account of Dorothy’s later life in the poet’s household, with glimpses of William, his family and friends; they show that Dorothy, well into her middle years, vas still a tireless, active, sensitive observer, constantly in excited quest of new experiences; and finally, like the Liebestod which rounds Keats’s letters with a tragic period, they close the history of Dorothy’s long years of devotion with a decrescendo of sickness and pain, ending with the sudden darkening of her mind” (p. 3).
Woof, Pamela. The Wordsworths and the Daffodils. Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2002.
Booklet issued on the 200th anniversary of the publication of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Woof’s essay traces the development of the poem; with a second, botanical essay by Madeline Harley.
Review: E. Charles Nelson, Archives of Natural History 30.2 (2003): 359.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. Ed. Carol Kyros Walker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
Abstract: “In the late summer and early autumn of 1803, Dorothy Wordsworth undertook an extraordinary 663-mile journey through the Scottish Lowlands and southwestern Highlands, with her brother William and, for a short time, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. On their return home, she recorded, with warmth, wit and crisp imagery, her recollections of the adventures, sights and unspoiled, romantic landscape of the tour. Her engaging ‘journal’ is now republished in this beautiful volume that provides remarkable black-and-white photographs of the Scottish scenes described. Carol Kyros Walker has captured the essence of these places in a photographic essay that follows each week of Wordsworth’s recollections. Walker also contributes an introduction to locate events of the journey within their historical setting and to explain the significance of this trip for the three participants; a discussion of Dorothy Wordsworth’s skills as a writer; extensive notes to clarify her many allusions; and a map of the itinerary.”
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Wu, Duncan, ed. A Companion to Romanticism. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
See James A. Butler, “Travel Writing,” pp. 393-400.
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