{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-dorothy-wordsworth","title":"The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth","description":"Review\n\n'Intelligent and intriguing...A portrait of a peculiar, passionate, yet meticulous woman which is hauntingly strange.' - Sunday Telegraph\n\n'Passion is the keynote of Wilson's fine biography...Brims with the personality of [an] extraordinary woman...Thrilling.' - Sunday Times\n\n'This beautiful, wise biography draws Dorothy from her hiding places. She emerges as a passionate figure.' - Daily Telegraph\n\n'Gripping...Bold, witty, scholarly and speculative.' - Margaret Drabble\n\nProduct Description\n\nThe prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth.\n\n'Genius ... Its own kind of heaven.' New York Times\n\n'A most beautiful, deep, and humble study of incredibly complex people.' Oliver Sacks\n\nDorothy Wordsworth is an enigma. William's beloved sister was his muse, champion, and most valued reader. She is mythologised as a self-effacing spinster and saintly amanuensis, yet Thomas De Quincey described her as 'all fire and ardour'.\n\nDorothy sacrificed a traditional life to share in her brother's world of words. In her Grasmere Journals, she vividly recorded their intimate life together in the Lake District, marked by a startling freedom from social convention. The tale that unfolds in her brief, electric entries reveals an intense bond between siblings, culminating in Dorothy's collapse on William's wedding day - after which the woman who once strode the hills in all weathers retreated inside the house for the last three decades of her life.\n\nIn her magisterial biography, Frances Wilson uses the compressed emotion of Dorothy's journals to evoke the rich interior world of a woman determined to live on her own terms - one who deserves her own place in the history of the Romantic movement.\n\n'Intelligent and intriguing ... A portrait of a peculiar, passionate, yet meticulous woman which is hauntingly strange.' Sunday Telegraph\n\n'Passion is the keynote of Wilson's fine biography ... Brims with the personality of [an] extraordinary woman ... Thrilling.' Sunday Times\n\n'This beautiful, wise biography draws Dorothy from her hiding places. She emerges as a passionate figure.' Daily Telegraph\n\n'Gripping ... Bold, witty, scholarly and speculative.' Margaret Drabble\n\nReview\n\nGenius ... Moves with novelistic buoyancy and grace ... Its own kind of heaven. ― New York Times\n\nPassion is the keynote of Wilson's fine biography ... Brims with the personality of [an] extraordinary woman ... Thrilling. ― Sunday Times\n\nIntelligent and intriguing ... A portrait of a peculiar, passionate, yet meticulous woman which is hauntingly strange. ― Sunday Telegraph\n\nThis beautiful, wise biography draws Dorothy from her hiding places. She emerges as a passionate figure. ― Daily Telegraph\n\nA most beautiful, deep, and humble study of incredibly complex people.\n\nGripping ... Bold, witty, scholarly and speculative.\n\nAstute and elegantly written ... Wilson reveals an utterly unconventional woman. ― Guardian\n\nDeeply attractive and original ... A story which is important and moving and has at its heart a mysterious tenderness.\n\nThis page-turning narrative gives Dorothy Wordsworth new stature ... A troubling, poignant but gifted woman.\n\nA delicacy and pace of which fiction is seldom capable ... Few novels could tell a story as moving.\n\nBook Description\n\nThe prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nFrances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions, which was praised by Alain de Botton as 'psychologically rich and wise', and The Courtesan's Revenge, which was described as \"a wonderful biography ... Witty and sharp' by Jane Ridley in the Spectator. She lives in London with her daughter.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40243623788629,"sku":"9780571366231N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/d358145c-c250-45ef-868a-ea4b4bb1b1df.jpg?v=1660723627","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-ballad-of-dorothy-wordsworth","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}