Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
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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... |
Publishing | Dorothy Wordsworth | She worked on this account during the year following the actual journey, and found it very hard going, chiefly on account of what she now felt to be the excessive quantity of her notes compiled... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
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... |
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