A Passionate Sisterhood: The Sisters, Wives and Daughters of the Lake Poets

Kathleen Jones
�10.99

A revealing account of life behind the scenes in the families of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, looking at the lives of the women in their lives.
The story of 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.

Published by :	Virago
Published Date :	1998
Pages :	362
Format :	Paperback.
Illustrations :	b&w photographs.
ISBN :	9781860494925

A Passionate Sisterhood: The Sisters, Wives and Daughters of the Lake Poets

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The stuff that your English teacher never taught you - Daily Mail.
Reading it becomes a gripping, almost addictive experience - TLS.

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