Bibliograph

Jane and Dorothy, a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth, Marian Veevers

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Jane and Dorothy, a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth, Marian Veevers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-370) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jane and Dorothy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

992569824

Responsibility statement

Marian Veevers

Sub title

a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth

Summary

Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends. This book compares their upbringing and education, home lives and loves and, above all, their emotional and creative worlds. Original insights include a new discovery of serious depression suffered by Dorothy Wordsworth, a new and crucial discovery about Dorothy and William's relationship, and a critical look at the myths surrounding the man who stole Jane's heart

Table Of Contents

Prologue: The inward secrets of our hearts -- Gentlemen's daughers -- Little prattlers among men -- Original sin -- Fashionably educated and left without a fortune -- Love and friendship -- Ladies of the rectory -- A happy command of language -- Considering the future -- Falling in love -- Betrayal -- Journeys, brothers, freedom and confinement -- A house of my own -- An experiment in liberty -- My own darling child -- A small revolution -- Poetry and prose -- A maid whom there were none to praise -- Homecoming and exile -- Exercised to constraint -- Our affections do rebel -- Vary capable of loving -- Marriage : the settlement we should aim at -- Writing and publication -- My father cannot provide for us -- Another exile, another homecoming -- Beyond 1809 -- Epilogue: A natural sequel to an unnatural beginning? -- Appendix 1: Stanzas from The Minstrel -- Appendix 2: The Forest -- Epode -- Appendix 3: Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been

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