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Recovering Dorothy Polly Atkin

Recovering Dorothy von Polly Atkin

Recovering Dorothy Polly Atkin


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Zusammenfassung

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.

Recovering Dorothy Zusammenfassung

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth Polly Atkin

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798-1803) and as the sister of the 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Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who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.

Recovering Dorothy Bewertungen

'Polly Atkin argues for Dorothy's place in the writing of illness ... A narrowing world, she reminds us, need not lead to a narrowing of the self.' -- Guardian
'A timely reappraisal ...told with great sensitivity and ... a grounded perspective of Dorothy's everyday life in the Lakeland landscape.' -- Cumbria Life, Book of the Month, December 2021
'Dorothy Wordsworth's life is not worth less when, as Atkin reveals through scholarship and poetry, her 'keen eye' is 'turned not just on the world around her, but on the world inside.' -- Iona Glen
'The Wordsworths provide ... a treasure trove for authors, but this unusual book about Dorothy Wordsworth ... is all about her illness. I've never seen that subject covered before.' -- Hunter Davies, Cumbria Life

Über Polly Atkin

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR012078216
9781913393175
1913393178
Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth Polly Atkin
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Saraband
20211125
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