Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan.
1: 168-74
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Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
and her brother
, after their time abroad and after staying seven months with the Hutchinsons at Sockburn-on-Tees, arrived at the cottage they had rented at Grasmere, later (after the Wordsworths' time) named... |
Travel | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
left Grasmere with her brother William
to travel to France to meet with his former lover Annette Vallon
(now calling herself Williams) and her daughter, Caroline. Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan. 1: 168-74 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's life was radically changed when her brother William
married Mary Hutchinson
. Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 1: 572-3 |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
, with William
and Mary Wordsworth
and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere. Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 2: 133-4 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William
. Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan. 1: 3, 16 and n2 |
Author summary | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard
, William
, John
, and Christopher
. Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | From early childhood Dorothy had been especially close to her brother William
. When in 1794 she was at last able to live with him, the reunion was emotional and they both felt that their... |
Instructor | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Travel | Dorothy Wordsworth | Though she is so closely associated with places in the English West Country and the Lake District, DW
was a keen traveller. Her first trip abroad, from London via Hamburg to Goslar in Germany... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth
's Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes appeared in April 1810 as an introduction to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson
's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. It included a... |
Travel | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
took the first of many walking tours with her brother William
: from Kendal to Grasmere (eighteen miles) and from Grasmere to Keswick (fifteen miles). Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 1: 243 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW
, for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost... |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
and her brother William
arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney
, whose sons had become friendly with... |
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