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	DOROTHY WORDSWORTH - LoveToKnow Article on DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the death of her father in 1783, Dorothy found a home at Penrith, in the house of her maternal grandfather, and afterwards for a time with a maiden lady at Halifax.
		On the 2oth of January 1798 Dorothy Wordsworth began her invaluable Journal, used by successive biographers of her brother, but first printed in its quasi-entirety by Professor W. Knight in 1897.
		The Wordsworths, Coleridge, and Chester left England for Germany on the I4th of September 1798; and of this journey also Dorothy Wordsworth preserved an account, portions of which were published in 1897.
	33.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WO/WORDSWORTH_DOROTHY.htm (349 words)

	MSN Encarta - William Wordsworth
		Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and educated at Saint John's College, University of Cambridge.
		Wordsworth's income from his writings amounted to little, but his financial problems were alleviated for a time when in 1795 he received a bequest of £900 from a close friend.
		Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1850, and was buried in the Grasmere churchyard.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761572396 (1152 words)

	Wordsworth, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life.
		Wordsworth’s earlier work shows the poetic beauty of commonplace things and people as in “Margaret,” “Peter Bell,” “Michael,” and “The Idiot Boy.” His use of the language of ordinary speech was heavily criticized, but it helped to rid English poetry of the more artificial conventions of 18th-century diction.
		Wordsworth’s sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1771–1855, is known principally for her poems and for her journals, which have proved invaluable for later biographies and studies of the poet.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wo/WordswthW.html (855 words)

	§5. Dorothy Wordsworth. V. William Wordsworth. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History ...
		Dorothy’s letters make their mutual love known to us and let us into depths of Wordsworth’s nature, scarcely revealed by his poems.
		Wordsworth and Dorothy were equally fond of natural scenery.
		Dorothy made him turn his eyes again to the landscape and take an interest in the peasants near their home.
	www.bartleby.com /221/0505.html (359 words)

	William Wordsworth - Books and Biography
		William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District.
		Wordsworth's financial situation became better in 1795 when he received a legacy and was able to settle at Racedown, Dorset, with his sister Dorothy.
		Wordsworth was of a good height (five feet ten), and not a slender man; on the contrary, by the side of Southey, his limbs looked thick, almost in a disproportionate degree.
	www.readprint.com /author-92/William-Wordsworth (951 words)

	Dorothy Wordsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dorothy Wordsworth would probably be surprised at her presence in this anthology, for unlike just about everyone else in our pages, she did not think of herself primarily as a writer, and she did not aspire to publication.
		Dorothy began her Grasmere journal in May 1800, just as William was beginning to court their childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson, and she left off at the beginning of 1803, a few months after Mary and William returned from their honeymoon.
		Placed alongside these poems, however, some of Dorothy's passages suggest that William may have been inspired as much by her language as by events and appearances in the external world; and recently, Dorothy Wordsworth has come to light as a writer in her own right.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/damrosch_awl/chapter5/medialib/dwordsworth.html (819 words)

	Gauthier: Review of The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth
		Dorothy Wordsworth began her journal at Alfoxden in 1798.
		William Wordsworth, her brother, revolutionized the language of poetry, and some of his blank verse, which was written two hundred years ago, reads as if it was written yesterday.
		Then, a few months later, Dorothy wrote in her journal: “On Monday, 4th October 1802, my brother William was married to Mary Hutchinson.” With this marriage, the happiest period of Dorothy Wordsworth’s life was coming to an end.
	www.odresher.addr.com /reviews/wordsworth-p.htm (1735 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Dorothy Wordsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Wordsworth, the father of the family, was “law agent” to Sir James Lowther; Dorothy's mother Ann died in 1778 when Ann was six and she was then sent to Halifax to live with her aunt Elizabeth Threlkeld who acted as governess to her sister's children.
		Wordsworth and Dorothy's swarthy complexions, their peripatetic, Bohemian lifestyle and their strange accents suggested they might well be spies, as had the visits of their friend John Thelwall, a known political radical.
		Dorothy began her Grasmere Journal on May 14th as a companion for her in the absence of John and William, who had set off on the same day for Yorkshire to visit the Hutchinsons: “My heart was so full that I could hardly speak to W when I gave him a farewell kiss.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4803 (2601 words)

	Writing Against, Writing Through
		Dorothy's conflation (without appropriation) of Nature and her emotions, and her focus on her emotions and her often physically ill female body suggests that her body's connection to Nature and Community is a direct source of female writing, as compared to the phallic, unitary tropes of masculine subjectivity found in Western writing by men.
		Dorothy creates a metaphor for a perception of subjectivity, vocation and writing that cannot be expressed within the confines of patriarchal language--rather, her description of the island draws upon something more akin to Julia Kristeva's idea of a (feminine) semiotic language.
		Dorothy's struggle to imagine her position and value in relation to a phallocentric literary tradition invokes many theoretical questions- authorship, subjectivity, negotiating the limitations of language--which are still of concern today, although they resonate differently after two centuries.
	www.gwu.edu /~position/jill.html (4340 words)

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		Dorothy's sense of the community,3 which might be called her sense of self at the same time, is transposed in her observation of natural environments.
		In terms of the relationship between Dorothy Wordsworth and the ecological characteristic of her writing, Murphy suggests that her "writing demonstrates characteristics that could be labeled ecological--if not ecofeminist, which would be to a certain extent anachronistic--because of its attention to nature in its diversity as a thing-in-itself" (25).
		What we need in reading Dorothy Wordsworth, as Patrick Murphy suggests, is "criticism that can evaluate the differences between their writings [William's and Dorothy's] in terms of ecological criteria, analyzing the implications of Dorothy's willingness to record rather than order nature and to efface the speaker of the text as a dominating, central observer" (25).
	web.nwe.ufl.edu /los/dchoi.html (2514 words)

	William Wordsworth: A Hypertextual Biography
		William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth on the River Derwent, in the heart of the Lake District that would come to be immortalized in his poetry.
		William and Dorothy Wordsworth were the closest of siblings, and some writers have suggested an incestuous subtext for their relationship.
		Wordsworth did nothing to endear himself to the younger generation of poets by campaigning for Tory politicians in the 1818 and 1820 elections.
	members.aol.com /wordspage/bio.htm (3335 words)

	Nordlit
		Dorothy, of course, participated in the construction of peripatetic as a not quite silent partner: as we shall see, her Grasmere Journals and several of her poems can be identified as belonging to the mode.
		These assertions are supported by Dorothy's frequent organization of landscape description around a single cottage or dwelling not a common practice of the visual arts, from which she might have been supposed to pick it up and by her insistent metaphorization of landscape as "sheltering," a metaphor she proposes for some rather unlikely places.
		Dorothy's reiterated characterization of the glen's most distant hollow as a cradle reinforces the aesthetic role of sheltering domesticity in this outdoor scene, suggesting a series of nested "housing" structures mountains, the succeeding reaches of the glen, the hollow, the cottage.
	www.hum.uit.no /nordlit/1/wallace.html (7972 words)

	Dorothy Wordsworth & the Romantic Sensibility
		Thesis: Dorothy Wordsworth's writing is read today for her conscious portrayal of nature and the insight she provides into her own romantic sensibility and the lives of people in her circle and community.
		Dorothy also describes the displacement of people who are suffering because of economic conditions.
		Dorothy makes no further comment, but, through this anecdote, the reader is made aware of the economic difficulties of the time and the cost to the children.
	www.faculty.umb.edu /elizabeth_fay/dwords.html (1305 words)

	William Wordsworth
		Wordsworth was intoxicated by the combination of revolutionary fervor he found in France--he and Jones arrived on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille--and by the impressive natural beauty of the countryside and mountains.
		Wordsworth's passion for democracy, as is clear in his "Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff" (also called "Apology for the French Revolution"), is the result of his two youthful trips to France.
		Wordsworth's love of his native region is evident in the Guide, which remains useful for the reader of Wordsworth's poetry as well as for the tourist of the Lake District.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Lisle/dial/wordsworth.html (3829 words)

	Dorothy Wordsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) was an English prose writer who wrote in "exquisite, delicate prose." She is famous for her diaries and "recollections," which are her reflections on nature, English country life, and her travels in Europe.
		Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland in 1771.
		Dorothy Wordsworth deserves long-overdue credit for her influence on her brother's poetry, and also on the works of Coleridge.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/wordsworth_dorothy.htm (549 words)

	[minstrels] Daffodils -- William Wordsworth
		Wordsworth made use of the description in his sister's diary, as well as of his memory of the daffodils in Gowbarrow Park, by Ullswater.
		Wordsworth's last years were given over partly to "tinkering" his poems, as the family called his compulsive and persistent habit of revising his earlier poems through edition after edition.
		Third, Wordsworth placed poetry at the centre of human experience; in impassioned rhetoric he pronounced poetry to be nothing less than "the first and last of all knowledge--it is as immortal as the heart of man," and he then went on to create some of the greatest English poetry of his century.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/63.html (2510 words)

	Jill Heydt-Stevenson, On Matlak's _The Poetry of Relationship_ - Romantic Circles Reviews, Romantic Circles
		Matlak finds a much more fraught connection between Dorothy and Wordsworth than has often been pictured: yes, this is a relationship remarkable for its profound love, but he does not picture it as the blissful union or blessed symbiosis that readers have often imagined.
		His profound depression of 1793–96 arises thus not from the inadequacies of Godwinism or moral actions or failure of the French Revolution, but from guilt: "Wordsworth's fulfilling his commitment to his sister thus appears to be the catalyst of his melancholia during the period from 1793 to the spring of 1796" (45).
		Her natural descriptions, he claims, present a very different view of the universe; William may be asserting transcendental leanings, but Dorothy does not accept these metaphysical assertions (102), though he wants her to believe as he did and feels cut off from her on the subject.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reviews/back/matlak.html (1963 words)

	The Wordsworth Trust
		There are many ideas associated with ‘Romantic’ poetry, but one of the most important for Wordsworth was to show the link between human experience and the natural world.
		Wordsworth loved and drew inspiration from this landscape of the Lake District, his home.
		Today we hope that the importance of place has been retained: that interacting with Wordsworth’s work, in the place it was created, allows the freshness of the original inspiration to live.
	www.wordsworth.org.uk (199 words)

	Dorothy Wordsworth: Sister and Poet
		Although Dorothy never considered herself to be a poet, her journals reveal a writer concerned with poetic techniques.
		Compare, however, her brother’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," first printed in 1807: “When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils, / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” His spontaneity seems to be, in part, a borrowed impulsiveness.
		In all fairness, Dorothy was privy to her brother’s literary circle, which included, among others, their close friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6021/51649 (464 words)

	The Wordsworths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Christabel" was familiar to Dorothy and William Wordsworth throughout the poem's composition from 1798 to 1800.
		Dorothy records in her journal that Coleridge read "part of Christabel" on Sunday, 31 August 1800, for the first time.
		And together Dorothy and Mary Hutchinson (Wordsworth's future wife, as of October 1802) transcribed a copy of the poem between November 1801 and January 1802.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/1998/v/n10/005806arp032.html (1165 words)

	CSC Conferences & Symposia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But if we can acquit Dorothy Wordsworth of the charge of simply being a conduit for the most prejudiced of middle-class values, a smugly uncritical faith in the ethos of the nuclear family and a corresponding animus against the poor for failing to adhere to that ethos, what of her brother?
		We must bear in mind that it is to catch him up that the accusations against Dorothy are really made, since she, like William, is said to belong to "Wordsworth's milieu," with all of the unflattering insinuations that assignment to that milieu carries with it.
		My arguments on behalf of Wordsworth and with his adversarial critics are, I believe, based on historical fact and on the plain sense of the texts I have discussed, but I recognize that in our current critical climate such appeals to fact and the plain sense of texts may not be sufficient.
	cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/csc/conferences.cfm?doc_id=360 (1252 words)

	zoak's English 3622 blog: How is this supposed to go?
		Dorothy Wordsworth was apparently the sister of the William Wordsworth.
		Dorothy doesn't bother explaining, describing, or introducing, which sometimes gets confusing-- I'm having trouble keeping track of her many friends, neighbours, and penpals.
		Dorothy's daily routine and entertainments are so far removed from the 21st century that even the drier entries can be interesting.
	zoak23.blogspot.com /2005/01/how-is-this-supposed-to-go.html (462 words)

	Women of Romantic Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Her contribution to the legacy of Romantic poetry through her influences on William Wordsworth cannot be underestimated.Devoted to her brother, the poet William Wordsworth, Dorothy served as his housekeeper-companion both before and after his marriage to Mary Hutchinson in 1802.
		Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, but was sent away to live with a succession of relatives after her mother's death in 1778.
		Dorothy is a prominent figure in many of William's poems, including Tintern Abbey and The Prelude, and is the probable original of his Lucy and Emma.
	romantic_poetry.agnesscott.edu /women.htm (1300 words)

	Wordsworth
		Wordsworth had a deep love of nature that was inspired by his rural childhood.
		Dorothy Wordsworth (his sister), Mary Wordsworth (his wife), Catherine, Thomas and Dora Wordsworth (his children), Sara Hutchinson (Mary's sister) and Hartley Coleridge (son of S.T. Coleridge)
		Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount in 1850 after catching a cold which turned into pleurisy.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /wordsworth.htm (311 words)

	William Wordsworth
		William Wordsworth, the son of an attorney, was born in 1770.
		Wordsworth went on a walking tour of France in 1790 and returned the following year and had an affair with Annette Vallon, the result of which was an illegitimate daughter, Ann Caroline.
		Wordsworth, now established as a conservative and patriotic poet, succeeded Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jwordsworth.htm (731 words)

	William Wordsworth - Biography and Works
		William Wordsworth was born on April 17, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District.
		Wordsworth spent the winter of 1798-99 with his sister and Coleridge in Germany, where he wrote several poems, including the enigmatic 'Lucy' poems.
		Wordsworth's central works were produced between 1797 and 1808.
	www.online-literature.com /wordsworth (895 words)

	jenS.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		William and Dorothy Wordsworth, poets and siblings, had a very close relationship with one another as well as a special relationship with nature.
		Although Dorothy was almost never published while she lived, her journals, a few poems and some letters have since become published and often read It is apparent in her writing that she possessed the power to record her observation of people and nature with delicate description in prose.
		Goal: The goal for this lesson is to give the students an appreciatiopn of the way that William Wordsworth's poetry and the prose of Dorothy Wordsworth utilize the theme and role that nature played in their lives as well as their writing.
	www.humboldt.edu /~teg1/syllabus/406/students/fall97/2/jenS.html (795 words)

	Miall -- "Tintern", Frappied on Loss
		Wordsworth's treatment of Dorothy in paragraph six of "Tintern Abbey" is characterized by a rather startling emphasis on togetherness.
		Wordsworth's emphatic treatment of togetherness in the last paragraph of "Tintern Abbey" is suggestive of a dynamic that has been elucidated in psychoanalytic studies.
		(Dorothy is not ill during the night nor is she ill that morning.) At a little after 8 o'clock I saw them go down the avenue towards the church.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~dmiall/TinternRev/Sheree_2.htm (1571 words)

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