Dorothy Wordsworth, A Longman Cultural Edition

by Wordsworth, Dorothy; Levin, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780321277756
• ISBN10: 0321277759
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-26
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

From Longman's Cultural Editions series,Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by internationally acclaimed expert Susan Levin, is the first to present Wordsworthrs"s writing in a single volume representing all genres to attract her pen. She emerges as a journalist, poet, traveler, social activist, and crucial presence in the Wordsworth household.

Author Biography

Among Susan Levin’s many publications on nineteenth-century topics, is Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism (Rutgers UP), the first book-length critical study of Dorothy Wordsworth’s writing. Professor of the Humanities and director of the Program in Literature and Communications at Stevens Institute of Technology, Susan Levin is also the performer of Songs by Women Composers.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
About Longman Cultural Editions	p. ix
About This Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Table of Dates	p. xxi
Texts	p. 3
The Alfoxden Notebook	p. 5
From Journal of Days Spent at Hamburgh	p. 18
From the Grasmere Journals	p. 25
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland a.d. 1803	p. 89
Mary Jones and her Pet-Lamb	p. 120
A Narrative Concerning George and Sarah Green	p. 124
From Tour on the Continent, 1820	p. 145
Journals, 1824-1835	p. 173
Collected Poems	p. 177
Letters	p. 222
Contexts	p. 231
Money and Distance	p. 233
Descriptions of Dorothy Wordsworth	p. 235
from Letter to Joseph Cottle, Notebook, October, 1802	p. 235
from Recollections of the Lake Poets	p. 237
from Letter to Dora Wordsworth 342-43	p. 242
Life in the Wordsworth Household	p. 243
from The art of Cookery	p. 246
from the Home Secretary's Investigation of the Wordsworths as Spies	p. 247
"A Conversation about Incest" from his Cause Book	p. 251
from Table Talk	p. 253
Literary Contexts	p. 255
"I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" (1807, see pp. 60-61)	p. 255
The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly (1807, see p. 63)	p. 256
Beggars (1807, see pp. 30-31)	p. 257
from Early Memorials of Grasmere	p. 259
Viewing the World: The Picturesque and Travel	p. 281
from Observations Relative to Picturesque Beauty	p. 281
Nutting	p. 285
from A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 Through Holland	p. 290
from Diaries, Reminiscences, and Correspondence	p. 296
from Her Journal of 1820 Tour of the Continent	p. 308
Social and Political	p. 314
from Letter to Jane Pollard	p. 314
from OEconomy of Charity	p. 315
Cursory Remarks on Inclosures	p. 324
Further Reading	p. 339
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