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Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

Polly Atkin

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Description:Dorothy Wordsworth is well-known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the poet William Wordsworth. She is praised for her nature writing and as a woman with great physical vitality: someone who could walk long distances, who had great stamina, strength, and a certain wildness. Less well known is that in 1829 Dorothy became seriously ill, and was mostly housebound from 1835. She lived another twenty years after that, outliving her brother by five years.This book is about the Dorothy we don’t know – disabled, housebound – who makes her sick room into a garden for herself and her pet robin, and who is finally able to call herself a poet. Recovering Dorothy draws on the unpublished journals of her illness to place the whole Dorothy back into her own life story.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth. To get started finding Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 264

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Saraband

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1913393178

Description: Dorothy Wordsworth is well-known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the poet William Wordsworth. She is praised for her nature writing and as a woman with great physical vitality: someone who could walk long distances, who had great stamina, strength, and a certain wildness. Less well known is that in 1829 Dorothy became seriously ill, and was mostly housebound from 1835. She lived another twenty years after that, outliving her brother by five years.This book is about the Dorothy we don’t know – disabled, housebound – who makes her sick room into a garden for herself and her pet robin, and who is finally able to call herself a poet. Recovering Dorothy draws on the unpublished journals of her illness to place the whole Dorothy back into her own life story.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth. To get started finding Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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