Culley, Amy, and Anna M. Fitzer, eds. Editing Women’s Writing, 1670–1840. New York: Routledge, 2017.
See Introduction, pp. 1–17.
Fawcett — Some Eminent Women of Our Times (1889)
Fawcett, Mrs. Henry. Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches. London and New York: Macmillan, 1889.
See Chap. 18, “Dorothy Wordsworth,” pp. 176–85.
Kellaway — Virago Book of Women Gardeners (2016)
Kellaway, Deborah, ed. The Virago Book of Women Gardeners. London: Virago Press, 2016.
“From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers, has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.”
Copy: Library of Congress.
Hardwick — Seduction and Betrayal (1970)
Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970.
Also New York: Random House, 1974. With an introduction by Joan Didion.
See “Dorothy Wordsworth,” pp. 143–56.
Yonge — Biographies of Good Women (1865)
Yonge, Charlotte Mary, ed. Biographies of Good Women. 2nd ser. London: J. and C. Mozley, 1865.
See “Dorothy Wordsworth (by the author of Magdalen Stafford),” pp. 510–43.
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Thomas — Feminine Influence (1910)
Thomas, Edward. Feminine Influence on the Poets. London: Martin Secker, 1910; New York: John Lane Co., 1911.
See pp. 26, et seq., 32, 33, 188–95, 198.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital copy: HathiTrust.
Reed — Happy Women (1913)
Reed, Myrtle. Happy Women. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913.
Treats Dolly Madison, Dorothy Wordsworth, Queen Louise, Caroline Herschel, Elizabeth Browning, Charlotte Cushman, Lucretia Mott, Florence Nightingale, Sister Dora, Jenny Lind, Louisa Alcott, Queen Victoria. (For the chapter devoted to Dorothy Wordsworth, see pp. 35–46.)
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital copy: HathiTrust.
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.”
Copy: Library of Congress.
Homans — Bearing the Word (1986)
Homans, Margaret. Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Copy: Library of Congress.
Digital copy: Internet Archive.
Extensive references to Dorothy Wordsworth (see index), especially in Chapter Two, “Building Refuges: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Poetics of the Image.”
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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