Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan.
1: 168-74
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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... |
Textual Features | Emma Caroline Wood | The volume included selections from Byron
, George Eliot
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Christina Rossetti
, Sir Walter Scott
, Alfred Lord Tennyson
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and William Wordsworth
. |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | The European Magazine printed a poem On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams
Weep at a Tale of Distress: the first publication of the schoolboy William Wordsworth
. Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints. 191-2 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | Two of these poems became well-known on account of musical settings. The volume as a whole established HMW
's reputation and her allegiance to sensibility. It was no doubt a factor in producing Wordsworth
's... |
Publishing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Wedgwood | JW
visited Harriet Martineau
at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on Wordsworth
, whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable. Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista. 254 Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista. 253-4 |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 333 |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | In addition to reviews, RMW
contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley
who had died... |
No bibliographical results available.