{"product_id":"ballad-of-dorothy-wordsworth","title":"Ballad Of Dorothy Wordsworth By Wilson, Frances","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Genius ... Its own kind of heaven.'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A most beautiful, deep, and humble study of incredibly complex people.''\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Sacks \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Wordsworth is an enigma.\u003c\/b\u003e 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''.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy sacrificed a traditional life to share in her brother''s world of words. In her \u003cb\u003eGrasmere Journals\u003c\/b\u003e, she vividly recorded their intimate life together in the\u003cb\u003e Lake District\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her \u003cb\u003emagisterial biography, Frances Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e uses the compressed emotion of Dorothy''s journals to evoke the rich interior world of a\u003cb\u003e woman determined to live on her own terms \u003c\/b\u003e- one who deserves her own place in the history of the \u003cb\u003eRomantic \u003c\/b\u003emovement\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Intelligent and intriguing ... A portrait of a peculiar, passionate, yet meticulous woman which is hauntingly strange.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Passion is the keynote of Wilson''s fine biography ... Brims with the personality of [an] extraordinary woman ... Thrilling.''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This beautiful, wise biography draws Dorothy from her hiding places. She emerges as a passionate figure.''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Gripping ... Bold, witty, scholarly and speculative.’\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Drabble\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57560251990398,"sku":"NW9780571366231","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571366231.jpg?v=1783275537","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/ballad-of-dorothy-wordsworth","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}