Dorothy Wordsworth
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Standard Name: Wordsworth, Dorothy
Birth Name: Dorothy Wordsworth
is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both the precise circumstances and the personal pleasures of the rural poor and vagrants.
was also a travel writer, and interest has been growing in her thirty or so very interesting poems extant. Besides writing these poems, she exerted profound if unquantifiable influence on the poetry of her brother
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Wordsworth, Dorothy. George & Sarah Green. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon, 1936.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Knight, William Angus, Macmillan, 1897, 2 vols.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, and William Wordsworth. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798; The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803. Editor Darbishire, Helen, Oxford University Press, 1958.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Helen Darbishire. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798; The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803. Editor Moorman, Mary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1971.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Preface”. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Ernest De Selincourt, Macmillan, 1941, p. 1: v - xix.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland. Editor Shairp, John Campbell, Edmonston and Douglas, 1874.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere Journals. Editor Woof, Pamela, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Wordsworth, William et al. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Editors Selincourt, Ernest De et al., Clarendon, 1993, 8 vols.
Wordsworth, William, and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Later Years. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Clarendon Press, 1939, 3 vols.