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 writing raises for the modern reader are significant....

The original inspiration and intentions of authors are sometimes loss through the process of literary editing. However, Pamela Woof's editing of Dorothy Wordsworth's 'Grasmere Journals' successfully recaptured much of the author's original intentions. Moreover, Woof's analytical approach to editing the Wordsworth's journals allowed her...

Wordsworth & his exquisite Sister are with me--She is a woman indeed!--in mind, I mean, & heart--for her person is such, that if you expected to see a pretty woman, you would think her ordinary--if you expected to find an ordinary woman, you...

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.

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 figures.”

In the following essay, Woof studies the relationships between Dorothy Wordsworth's journals and William Wordsworth's poems.