Jump to content

User:Rae (BYU)/dorothy wordsworth: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
cite
cite
Line 1: Line 1:
{{User sandbox}}
{{User sandbox}}
* '''Life section''': birth, Cockermouth, third child, parents info, mother death, Threlkeld takes her in until May 1787, age 9 attends boarding school at Hipperholme, father death, guardians transfer her to day school in Halifax, required to leave Halifax and live with grandparetns in Penrith, uncle takes her to live with them at Norfolk, age seventeen has sunday school of nine girls, 1794 arrives in Halifax to visit 'aunt' and see William after three years absence for six weeks, meets William in Bristol, 1797 meets Coleridge and moves with William to Alfoxden and lives there until June 1798, keeps journal at Alfoxden and travels with William and Coleridge to Hamburg for summer (p. 7-9)* '''Chronology''':<ref>{{cite book |last=Woof |first=Pamela |title=Dorothy Wordsworth, Writer |publisher=The Wordsworth Trust |year=1988 |publication-place=Grasmere, Cumbria |url=https://archive.org/embed/dorothywordswort0000woof |url-access=registration |isbn=0-951061-66-6}}</ref>
* '''Life section''': birth, Cockermouth, third child, parents info, mother death, Threlkeld takes her in until May 1787, age 9 attends boarding school at Hipperholme, father death, guardians transfer her to day school in Halifax, required to leave Halifax and live with grandparetns in Penrith, uncle takes her to live with them at Norfolk, age seventeen has sunday school of nine girls, 1794 arrives in Halifax to visit 'aunt' and see William after three years absence for six weeks, meets William in Bristol, 1797 meets Coleridge and moves with William to Alfoxden and lives there until June 1798, keeps journal at Alfoxden and travels with William and Coleridge to Hamburg for summer (p. 7-9)<ref>{{cite book |last=Woof |first=Pamela |title=Dorothy Wordsworth, Writer |publisher=The Wordsworth Trust |year=1988 |publication-place=Grasmere, Cumbria |url=https://archive.org/embed/dorothywordswort0000woof |url-access=registration |isbn=0-951061-66-6}}</ref>


==Life==
==Life==
Line 9: Line 9:


== Critical reception ==
== Critical reception ==

⚫
==Notes==
⚫
{{Reflist}}

⚫
==Bibliography==
* '''Profession of authorship''':<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Ken Edward |last2=Crehan |first2=Stewart |title=Dorothy Wordsworth and the Profession of Authorship: A Critical Commentary on Her Letters, Journals, Life Writing, and Poetry |chapter=A Brief Chronology |publisher=The Edwin Mellen Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7734-1533-1 |pages=xxi–xxvi}}</ref>
* '''Profession of authorship''':<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Ken Edward |last2=Crehan |first2=Stewart |title=Dorothy Wordsworth and the Profession of Authorship: A Critical Commentary on Her Letters, Journals, Life Writing, and Poetry |chapter=A Brief Chronology |publisher=The Edwin Mellen Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7734-1533-1 |pages=xxi–xxvi}}</ref>
* '''Recovering Dorothy''':<ref>{{cite book |last=Atkin |first=Polly |title=Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth |publisher=Saraband |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-91-339317-5}}</ref>
* '''Recovering Dorothy''':<ref>{{cite book |last=Atkin |first=Polly |title=Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth |publisher=Saraband |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-91-339317-5}}</ref>
Line 24: Line 19:
* '''DW and CR poetics''':<ref>{{cite book |last=Healey |first=Nicola |title=Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: The Poetics of Relationship |year=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0230277724}}</ref>
* '''DW and CR poetics''':<ref>{{cite book |last=Healey |first=Nicola |title=Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: The Poetics of Relationship |year=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0230277724}}</ref>
* '''''':<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |title= |year= |publisher= |isbn=}}</ref>
* '''''':<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |title= |year= |publisher= |isbn=}}</ref>

⚫
==Notes==
⚫
{{Reflist}}

⚫
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 00:59, 4 April 2024

  • Life section: birth, Cockermouth, third child, parents info, mother death, Threlkeld takes her in until May 1787, age 9 attends boarding school at Hipperholme, father death, guardians transfer her to day school in Halifax, required to leave Halifax and live with grandparetns in Penrith, uncle takes her to live with them at Norfolk, age seventeen has sunday school of nine girls, 1794 arrives in Halifax to visit 'aunt' and see William after three years absence for six weeks, meets William in Bristol, 1797 meets Coleridge and moves with William to Alfoxden and lives there until June 1798, keeps journal at Alfoxden and travels with William and Coleridge to Hamburg for summer (p. 7-9)[1]

Life

  • Death of DW: buried in churchyard in England at Grasmere in the Lake District with William, William's wife, and other family, remembered for diaries not published until years after her death, started first journal in 1798, friendship with Coleridge and created Lyrical Ballads, end of 1799 Dove Cottage in Grasmere, year younger than William, parents died when children and she and William were close, lived in poverty, "cast-off clothes", "unconventional person" who took long walks in the country, never married, remained member of household when William married in 1802 (age 31), decided too old for marriage, rumours of incest with William baseless but close relationship, didn't attend William's wedding and eventually stopped keeping her diary, 1813 Wordsworths moved to Rydal Mount, D fell ill in 1829 and was an "invalid", age 60s-84 (death) "deepening haze of senility", William looked after Dorothy during his last years until his death in 1850, D journals first published in 1897.[2]
  • Grasmere journals: no job outside of house, no strict routine, journal conveys the "unpremeditated rhythms" of her and William's lives (p1), Tintern Abbey: "Of this fair river; thou my dearest Friend,/My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch/The language of my former heart, and read/My former pleasures in the shooting lights/Of thy wild eyes, Oh! yet a little while/May I behold in thee what I was once" (xiii), journal reflects moments of "overwhelming feeling", not writing for strangers but Wordsworth only (xv), private diary, daily life of a poet (WW) from his sister's pov and without focus on him, details of daffodils for WW, "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears", "Dorothy's way of seeing, when she purposively set out to produce a 'character', was to capture first of all the detail of appearance" (xvi), [interpretation of her goal w writing xvii], many revisions of the journal, dorothy's care was for william and the stress writing poems gave him, looked after WW, journal contents: (settling of house and garden, composition of poetry, WW marriage and the return), ends in early 1803 with completion of notebook[3]

Writing

Critical reception

  • Profession of authorship:[4]
  • Recovering Dorothy:[5]
  • DW & Romanticism:[6]
  • Poetry of relationship:[7]
  • All in each other:[8]
  • Rebels and con:[9]
  • Women writers [check pub date]:[10]
  • Women in romanticism:[11]
  • DW and CR poetics:[12]
  • ':[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Woof, Pamela (1988). Dorothy Wordsworth, Writer. Grasmere, Cumbria: The Wordsworth Trust. ISBN 0-951061-66-6.
  2. ^ Cavendish, Richard (January 2005). "Death of Dorothy Wordsworth: January 25th, 1855". History Today. Vol. 55, no. 1. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  3. ^ Wordsworth, Dorothy (1991). "Introduction". In Woof, Pamela (ed.). Dorothy Wordsworth: The Grasmere Journals. Oxford University Press. pp. ix–xxii. ISBN 0-19-283130-5.
  4. ^ Smith, Ken Edward; Crehan, Stewart (2011). "A Brief Chronology". Dorothy Wordsworth and the Profession of Authorship: A Critical Commentary on Her Letters, Journals, Life Writing, and Poetry. The Edwin Mellen Press. pp. xxi–xxvi. ISBN 978-0-7734-1533-1.
  5. ^ Atkin, Polly (2022). Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth. Saraband. ISBN 978-1-91-339317-5.
  6. ^ Levin, Susan M. (1987). Dorothy Wordsworth & Romanticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers, The State University. ISBN 0-8135-1146-1.
  7. ^ Matlak, Richard E. (1997). The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797–1800. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-10166-X.
  8. ^ Newlyn, Lucy (2013). William and Dorothy Wordsworth: 'All in Each Other'. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-969639-0.
  9. ^ Ellis, Amanda M. (1967). Rebels and Conservatives: Dorothy and William Wordsworth and Their Circle. Indiana University Press. LCCN 67-13021.
  10. ^ Homans, Margaret (2014). Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-69-106440-6.
  11. ^ Alexander, Meena (1989). Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 0-389-20884-1.
  12. ^ Healey, Nicola (2012). Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: The Poetics of Relationship. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230277724.
  13. ^ {{cite book}}: Empty citation (help)

Bibliography

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rae_(BYU)/dorothy_wordsworth&oldid=1217131568"