IT HAS long been recognized that Dorothy Wordsworth, who never wrote a line for publication in her life, had a gift for expression which in its smaller and more limited way was as fine as the more ...

This sensitive and elegantly written life of Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), sister of the poet William Wordsworth, centers on four small notebooks, her so-called Grasmere Journals. These journals ...

Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers. Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's ...

He has a nice bright day. It was hard frost in the night. The Robins are singing sweetly. Now for my walk. I will be busy. I will look well and be well when he comes back to me. O the darling! Here is ...

Oxford professor Newlyn (Reading Writing and Romanticism) investigates the lifelong “creative collaboration” between the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. After the early death of their ...

Accompanying her famous brother on a bracing tour of Scotland in August 1803, Dorothy Wordsworth seeks shelter in a humble lodging house and discovers something no outsider was ever meant to see.

Biographer Frances Wilson discusses the intense connection between William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy — and the "vortex of poetry" in... Sister Act: A New Take On Dorothy Wordsworth Imagine ...

Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...