William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William
Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory). Haydon was responding to a poem Wordsworth wrote for him; Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), alerted by Mary Russell Mitford, wrote a poem about the painting. Wordsworth stands tall, arms folded and gazing downwards, showing his beaky face and bald head framed in remaining white hair and sideburns. National Portr

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883, 2 vols.
I: prelims; II: prelims
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, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 243
Travel Felicia Hemans
FH travelled to Westmorland in the Lake District on the invitation of Wordsworth .
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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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, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 168-74
Travel Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ called on theWordsworth family at Rydal Mount for the first time.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
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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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Travel Sara Coleridge
In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...
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...

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