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Recovering Dorothy by Polly Atkin (2022, Trade Paperback)

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They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother’s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story.

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PublisherSaraband

ISBN-101913393178

ISBN-139781913393175

eBay Product ID (ePID)12057250084

Product Key Features

Book TitleRecovering Dorothy

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorPolly Atkin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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LCCN2021-389292

Reviews"A timely reappraisal ... told with great sensitivity and ... a grounded perspective on everyday life in the Lakeland landscape." Cumbria Life, Book of the Month "Potent and relevant, [Atkin] celebrates nature." Sean Barr, Disclaimer, on Basic Nest Architecture, "A timely reappraisal ... told with great sensitivity and ... a grounded perspective on everyday life in the Lakeland landscape." Cumbria Life, Book of the Month "Potent and relevant, [Atkin] celebrates nature." Sean Barr, Disclaimer, on Basic Nest Architecture "A fresh, often deeply affecting reappraisal ... breaks new ground ... The restraint and spareness of Atkin's writing is extremely powerful ... almost leap[ing] off the page." European Romantic Review

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal828/.703

Table Of ContentList 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

SynopsisThe first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth's later life and work and the impact of her disability - allowing her to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798-1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother's success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story., The first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth's later life and work and the impact of her disability - allowing her to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story.

LC Classification NumberPR5849