Dorothy Wordsworth wrote for nearly seventy years but published almost nothing. Her work, however, has been preserved, admired, and is finally achieving nearly complete publication. The issues her wri...
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In the following excerpted review, the anonymous author assesses Wordsworth's Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, making special note of the preface written by the journal's editor...
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In the following essay, Woof studies the relationships between Dorothy Wordsworth's journals and William Wordsworth's poems.
The story of how some of Wordsworth's poetry was en...
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In the following essay, Meiners considers the role of the experience of suffering in the creation of meaning and selfhood for Romantic writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth.
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Romantic Encounters w...
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In the following excerpt, the authors recognize the role that Wordsworth and other women writers of the eighteenth century played in the struggle to “police, protect, and promote the bounds of ...
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In the following essay, Cook claims that Wordsworth's journals constitute autobiography despite the absence of the first person pronoun.
The following passage from Dorothy Wordsworth'...
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In the following essay, an abbreviated version of which was presented in 1993, Tyler reads Wordsworth absence from her journals as a narrative strategy of self-protection designed to prevent her broth...
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In the following essay, Easley scrutinizes Wordsworth's ideological relationship to the vagrant women who are frequently mentioned in her journals.
Dorothy Wordsworth in Context
During the t...
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In the following essay, Grob purports that, at the end of the twentieth century, “adversarial tactics of feminism and the New Historicism” have distorted Wordsworth scholarship.
Of th...
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In the following essay, Vlasopolos considers The Grasmere Journals in the context of late-twentieth-century notions of gender and authorial integrity.
Offering and Taking Dorothy's Textual Se...
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In the following essay, Ehnnen considers Dorothy Wordsworth's authority as a writer within the context of the intricate issues of female subjectivity found in the Romantic movement.
In the p...
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In the following review, the anonymous author praises Edmund Lee's biography of Dorothy Wordsworth for its unusually full appreciation of Wordsworth's intellect and personality.
Doroth...
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In the following essay, Davis finds that Wordsworth's journals investigate some of the philosophical implications of the picturesque.
Essentially an eighteenth-century aesthetic, the picture...
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In the following essay, Liu asserts that Wordsworth is a master at representing the self as part of its present occupation, a relationship he paraphrases as “I work therefore I am.”
A...
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In the following essay, portions of which were presented in 1982, McGavran explores William Wordsworth's impact on Dorothy's perceptions and representations, especially of herself.
Th...
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In the following essay, Wolfson asserts that Dorothy Wordsworth's poetry reveals a desire to investigate and, in some cases, reject William Wordsworth's “favored tropes and figure...
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In the following essay, McCormick argues for a more complex analysis of Wordsworth's rhetoric in the Grasmere Journals.
Traditionally the readers of Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, fro...
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In the following excerpt, Woof praises Wordsworth's journals for their “humanness” and unique expressions of pleasure.
Journals we shall have in number sufficient to fill a Lad...
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In the following essay, Snyder contends that the picturesque movement provided particular intellectual opportunity for women artists, Wordsworth among them.
In the last three decades of the eightee...
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Dorothy Wordsworth
Critical Review by Harper's New Monthly Magazine
