William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.
William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.
Lucy Newlyn was born in Uganda, grew up in Leeds, and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is now Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She has published widely on English Romantic Literature, including three books with Oxford University Press, and The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Her book Reading Writing and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception(O.U.P, 2000) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001. More recently she has been working on the prose writings of Edward Thomas. Together with Guy Cuthbertson she edited Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry , as well as England and Wales, a volume in the ongoing OUP edition of Thomas's prose. Married with a daughter and two step-children, Lucy Newlyn lives in Oxford. Ginnel, her first collection of poetry, was published in 2005: she is currently working on her second.
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Preface Chapter One: Homeless Chapter Two: Windy Brow and Racedown Chapter Three: Alfoxden Chapter Four: Hamburg Chapter Five: Goslar and Sockburn Chapter Six: Homecoming Chapter Seven: Dwelling Chapter Eight: The Grasmere Journal Chapter Nine: The Orchard at Town End Chapter Ten: Scotland Chapter Eleven: Grasmere and Coleorton Chapter Twelve: The Lake District Chapter Thirteen: The Continent Chapter Fourteen: Wanderlust Chapter Fifteen: Rydal Chapter Sixteen: Home Abbreviations Bibliography
