A Passionate Sisterhood: Women of the Wordsworth Circle
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312227310 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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The image of the familiar rustic idyll of Romantic poetry depends upon the bracing way these women bore the brunt of domestic realities. In this group biography of the women who featured in the lives of the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, Kathleen Jones takes us into the kitchens, sickrooms, and eventually the madwoman's attics of these major Romantic households. Their letters and journals form the basis for an illuminating new account of their interconnected lives--their passionate attachments, jealousies, the deaths of children, the realities of chronic ill health--at the same time contributing to our understanding of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey as all-too-fallible human beings.
A very good read An fascinating look at how these women provided the "safety net" that the Lake Poets needed. Often squashing their own creative writing urges, they maintained a home environment, birthed, raised and educated the children and nursed those family members who were ill. Death was a constant reminder that life was often tenuous and filled with varying degrees physical discomfort, pain a. Women and poetry Lynette Baines If you've ever wanted to know more about the women in the lives of some of England's greatest poets, then this is the book for you. Edith and Sarah Fricker were married to Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who, along with William Wordsworth, wrote some of the best-loved poetry in the English language. However, this is not a book about the great men and their problems with. "A Remarkable Depiction of Remarkable Women" according to A Customer. In this book, Kathleen Jones provides excellent insight into the lives of the women involved with the early English Romantic poets (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey). The reader is struck at the difficulty of these women's daily lives, allied as they were (through marriage or sisterhood) to men whose reputations were growing at such a rate that they o
--Wendy Smith. At the close of the 18th century, the Fricker sisters wed three close friends, two of whom would indelibly shape Romantic literature. The complicated tangle of their relations reads like something out of a fat English novel. Even as relationships among the older generation deteriorated, Dora Wordsworth, Edith May Southey, and Sara Coleridge formed a close bond that maintained their parents' connections. Sexy, impulsive Sarah found her match in Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Mary, the intellectual one, married Robert Lovell, who left her a widow at 25; and self-effacing Edith, given to depression, won Robert Southey despite his family's disapproval. Coleridge later fell in love with Sara Hutchinson, younger sibling of his pal William Wordsworth's wife, Mary, and childhood friend of William's beloved sister, Dorothy. Kathleen Jones's engaging, access