Johnson, Kenneth R. The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.
Extensive references to Dorothy Wordsworth; see index.
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Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Hutchinson — Letters of Sara Hutchinson (1954)
Hutchinson, Sara. Letters of Sarah Hutchinson from 1800 to 1835. Ed. Kathleen Coburn. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954.
The previously unpublished correspondence of the sister of William Wordsworth’s wife. Very extensive references to Dorothy Wordsworth; see index.
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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Elzey — Differences (2002)
Elzey, Susan Dean. “The Differences between Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals and William Wordsworth’s Poetry: Applying the Principles of ‘Preface.’” M.A. thesis, Longwood College, May 2002.
Abstract: “The difference between the accounts of Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth of the events they experience together is studied. At times it almost seems like William contradicts himself in his dictums. However, that assumption is not the case. He takes from Dorothy’s journals a memory, an idea, a description and uses it as the foundation of deeper and more personal poetic revelations than Dorothy ever did. Together, through their writings, the brother and sister illustrate the basic definition of what it is to be a poet. Dorothy was not a poet, William was.”
Contents: Introduction — Chap. 1, “A Departure from ‘Poetic Diction’” — Chap. 2, “Emotions Recollected in Tranquility” — Chap. 3, “Colouring of the Imagination” — Chap. 4, “Spontaneous Overflow of Feelings” — Conclusion — Works Cited.
Available on the Web.
Lovelock — Where All the Ladders Start (2023)
Lovelock, Julian. Where All the Ladders Start: A Study of Poems, Poets and the People who Inspired Them. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2023.
See Chap. 5, “A Tangled Web: William and Dorothy Wordsworth,” pp. 98–126.
Callaghan — Romanticism and the Letter (2020)
Callaghan, Madeleine, and Anthony Howe, eds. Romanticism and the Letter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
See Susan Wolfson, “Two Wordsworths: Mountain-Climbing, Letter-Writing,” pp. 61–82.
Shammari — Recasting Dorothy Wordsworth (2019)
Shammari, Shahd Daham al-. “Recasting Dorothy Wordsworth: A Woman Writer’s Undiscovered Literary Voice.” Arab Journal for the Humanities 37 (Spring, 2019): 291–303.
Abstract: “Women writers are often neglected in the literary canon. More often than not, critically acclaimed Romantic writers were male. The most famous Romantic poet, known for his poetic genius is William Wordsworth. Not much scholarly attention has been given to his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, who wrote extensively but not publicly. This paper sheds light on Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals as worthy of further literary recognition. Many literary critics and scholars have underestimated the value of her writing as not poetic enough, but in her rigorous documentation of everyday life, readers are able to gain insight into the harsh effects of patriarchy on women writers. Unlike her brother, Dorothy’s sense of self was not egotistical and instead hesitant and unsure. This paper uncovers Dorothy’s divided sense of self as evident in her writings and claims that her literary genius has gone unnoticed and could be considered as experimental and life writing.”
Powys — Wordsworths in Dorset (1972)
Powys, Llewelyn. The Wordsworths in Dorset. London: Covent Garden Press, 1972.
Leaflet. Introduction by Malcolm Elwin.
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Wordsworth, Dorothy — Grasmere Journals (1991)
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere Journals. Ed. Pamela Woof. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Publisher’s description: “This is perhaps one of the best-loved journals in English literature. Dorothy Wordsworth began it in 1800 to give her poet-brother pleasure, and for three years she noted walks and weather, friends, and neighbors on the roads of Grasmere. The journals tell of Wordsworth’s marriage, the Wordworths’ concern for Coleridge, and of the composition of poetry. For this edition, the original manuscripts have been freshly edited, yielding new readings of previously misread or undeciphered words, and restoring Dorothy Wordsworth’s hasty punctuation. Woof supplies a rich commentary, illuminating every aspect of this marvellous personal record.”
Reviews: Douglas Hewitt, Notes and Queries 39.3 (1992): 400; Nicola Trott, Wordsworth Circle 23.4 (1992): 213–14.
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