A Passionate Sisterhood by Kathleen Jones

A Passionate Sisterhood by Kathleen Jones

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.

Kathleen Jones's interesting study.. enriches our knowledge of the context in which they wrote, and offers some novel interpretations of character SPECTATOR A model of organisation and insight ... lucid, calm and thoughtful LITERARY REVIEW A considerable achievement THE TIMES A highly readable book. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Kathleen Jones, born and brought up in a hill farm in the Lake District, is a published poet and the biographer of Christina Rossetti. She has also published LEARNING NOT TO BE FIRST, the controversial DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE, A GLORIOUS FAME.

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ISBN 13	9781860494925
ISBN 10	1860494927
Title	A Passionate Sisterhood
Author	Kathleen Jones
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1998-07-02
Number of pages	384
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