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A Passionate Sisterhood
A Passionate Sisterhood
A Passionate Sisterhood
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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 to become 'a useful girl in the family' and was not allowed to marry the man she loved until she was thirty-seven and dying from TB. Her childhood friend, the young Sara Coleridge, had to fight disapproval, domestic conflict, unwanted pregnancy, depression, opium and morphine addiction to carve out a career as a writer and editor of national standing.
Their letters and journals form the basis for an illuminating new account of their interconnected lives - their passionate attachments, petty jealousies, the deaths of children, the realities of chronic ill health and barbaric medical practice. They also contribute to a fuller understanding of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey as all- too fallible human beings.

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Release dateSep 5, 2011
ISBN9780956730305
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    [edit]We were away in The Lake District for a holiday this summer and went to visit Wordsworth House (the house in which William Wordsworth was born) in Cockermouth which was so very interesting.Whilst in the shop on leaving I spotted this book which says it tells of the lives of the wives, sisters and daughters of the the lake poets, namely William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, and what an eyeopener it turned out to be absolutely fascinating! What a lot those women had to put up with for the sake of their husbands talent!The poets themselves would certainly not been as famous as they were if not for the women behind them. Apart from the fact they were all addicted to Laudanum a much used pain killer of the time. Samuel T Coleridge was absolutely hooked on it (which I think is fairly well known) and led a very merry life taking off all over the country leaving wife Sarah at home with the children and making her life a misery! I don't want to give too much away, but if you are interested in poets and poetry this is an excellent peek at the families around them, left to pick up the pieces of some very chaotic lives.

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