Dora Wordsworth

Standard Name: Wordsworth, Dora

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ became very close to Wordsworth 's daughter Dora ; the relationship, which may have been mutually romantic,
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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lasted until Jewsbury's death. When her physical and mental health failed, Dora sent her the present...
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Jane Jewsbury
Early in 1831 she had refused Fletcher 's first proposal. Despite her father 's strong opposition,
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 1, The Library, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73.
467
she finally consented when Fletcher proposed again in March.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
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Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
330
Anna Maria Hall tried her best to...
Friends, Associates Felicia Hemans
The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury , who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the...
Friends, Associates Mary Howitt
In Nottingham MH met L. E. L. and perhaps Elizabeth Fry . She was visited by Mary and Dora Wordsworth (wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the...
Health Maria Jane Jewsbury
She explained in a letter to Dora Wordsworth that she thought her illness was caused by a weakness in the upper part of the spine
qtd. in
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
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and that leeches and blistering
qtd. in
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
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were being used...
Literary responses Charlotte Elliott
The hymn was immediately popular, and was a great comfort to Dora Wordsworth in her final illness. CE received and preserved over a thousand letters thanking her for having written it.
Wells, Amos R. A Treasure of Hymns. Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Erik Routley in...
Reception Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ wrote to her friend Dora Wordsworth on 20 January 1829, before the book's publication, saying: if in the course of a fortnight you see Lays of Leisure Hours advertised, pray remember that I only...
Travel Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ paid a second visit to Dora and William Wordsworth at Rydal Mount.
Gillett, Eric, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. “Maria Jane Jewsbury: A Memoir”. Maria Jane Jewsbury: Occasional Papers, Oxford University Press, 1932, p. xiii - lxvii.
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