William Wordsworth

In 1840 William WordsworthhelpedEF to buy Lancrigg in Easedale, Cumberland. Joanna Baillie observed that she had built herself a nest in that romantic nook though her winter residence is in Edin[bu]r[gh].

Carrington loved and was creatively inspired by their new home. She compared it to Dorothy and William Wordsworth 's Lake District arrangements.

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...

During EMD 's childhood, her family had a country estate at The Falls, Llandogo, Monmouthshire. The house (now a nursing home) stands near Tintern Abbey (scene of a famous poem by Wordsworth ). EMD

William and DW moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden House, four miles from Nether Stowey in Somerset, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, in order to be close to Coleridge and...

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...

She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Fox How (the Arnold family home) was to her a magical place steeped with intertwined...

DW , with William and Mary Wordsworth and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere.

She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold

The background to this dense, richly-packed book includes a number of defining political events: the career of Toussaint L'Ouverture (discovered by Douglas through studying Wordsworth at school), the Irish Civil War; the trial of Sacco

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB said later, were William Hayley and...

The 1798 instalment of the series consists of three plays, two on love (the comedy The Tryal and the tragedy Count Basil) and one, the tragedy De Monfort, on hate. De Monfort himself...

The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare (written for the John Clare Society ) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...