Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have become such a literary myth that we are used to looking at the Lake District solely through their eyes. But the story for the women who loved and surrounded them - Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth, Sarah Coleridge and their daughters - was very different. Based on necessity, the extended family-type group they formed was a far cry from the harmonious rustic idyll illustrated by their male counterparts. Kathleen Jones looks at their letters and journals in this illuminating account of their lives - the passionate attachments and jealousies, unwanted pregnancies and children's death, drug addiction and barbaric medical practices.
- ISBN10 0956730302
- ISBN13 9780956730305
- Publish Date 1 December 2010 (first published 16 June 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Book Mill
- Edition 5th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English