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A PASSIONATE SISTERHOOD. THE SISTERS, WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF THE LAKE POETS
JONES KATHLEEN
- Editorial
- INGRAM
- Año edición
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-0-9932045-6-2
- Encuadernación
- Rústica
- Páginas
- 398
- Idioma
- Castellano
The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family that kept the group together long after the men had ceased to be friends. Based on necessity, it was far from the harmonious rustic idyll of the myth. Dorothy Wordsworth's consuming love for her brother William forced Mary, his wife, to compete for her husband's affections for more than forty years. When Coleridge fell in love with Mary's sister, Sarah Coleridge found herself abandoned with three small children, forced to live on the charity of her brother-in-law Robert Southey. . For the daughters, the 'legacy of genius' was equally destructive. Dora Wordsworth was sent to boarding school at four to learn