- The first book to explore the later life of Dorothy Wordsworth, by a leading scholar of her work.
- Follows on from the trilogy of biographies on the Brontë sisters, popular in museum gift shops.
- Strong local and tourist interest in Dorothy and William Wordsworth in the Lake District and Cumbria.
Table of Content
List of Abbreviations: Introduction; Many Dorothies; Dorothy and the Creative Household; Five Years of Sickness & Pain; Sickbed Consolations; Lost Fragments Shall Remain; Undiagnosing Dorothy; Dorothy’s Symptoms; Coda: Finding Dorothy; A Life in a Timeline; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index
About the author
Polly Atkin is a multi-award-winning writer, essayist and poet based in Grasmere, Cumbria, where she has worked and researched at Dove Cottage, home of the Wordsworths. Her first poetry collection, Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017), won a Northern Wrtier’s Award and was followed by a third pamphlet, With Invisible Rain (New Walk: 2018). Her first pamphlet, bone song (Aussteiger, 2008), was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award, 2009, and second, Shadow Dispatches (Seren, 2013), won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize, 2012.
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