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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…
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Who washed the socks and boiled the eggs for the so-called Lake Poets? Or any poet, for that matter? The answer is almost certainly their sisters, wives and daughters.
This is an account of the gifted, long-suffering, often tormented, coterie of women who laboured in the shadow of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. Connected by blood as well as marriage, the women were very different, but each was as trapped as the other by their gender.
The emotional fallout resulted in illnesses, neurosis, and deep unhappiness. Like her father, Sara Coleridge was an opium addict. Dorothy Wordsworth was consumed by love…
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