'"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on 21 March 1796, " ... yesterday we began Ariosto."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book
"[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " This "consistent" with W[ordsworth]'s remark in Nov. 1805 to Walter Scott (followed by reference to Fourth "Day" of the Decameron): "'It is many years since I saw Boccae ...' Later in the letter W[ordsworth] quotes Boccacio from memory, showing that he knew the Decameron well."
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Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter arrived, William [Wordsworth] had set forward with his Daughter on his back, and our little Nursemaid and I were on foot following after, all on our road over the high mountain pass betwixt Grasmere and Patterdale, by which road we were going to Park House to remove the Child from the danger of catching the hooping-cough which is prevalent at Grasmere. The letter was sent after us and we halted by the way-side to read it ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Manuscript: Letter
Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he ... sate upon a stump at the foot of the hill while I went up to Ann Nicholson's, and there I found your letter ... I opened the letter in Ann's house just to see if all were well with you, and I then hastened with my prize to William, and sat down beside him to read the letter, and truly a feast it was for us ... "
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how comfortable and happy we felt ourselves, sitting by our own fire ... We talked about the Lake of Como, read in the Descriptive Sketches, looked about us, and felt that we were happy.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinking it done; but lo! though Wm. could find fault with no one part of it, it was uninteresting, and must be altered.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'We sate by the fire in the evening, and read The Pedlar over.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalamium of Spenser.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 May 1802, 'When we came in [from evening walk to Tail End] we found a Magazine, and Review, and a letter from Coleridge with verses to Hartley [Coleridge], and Sara H[utchinson]. We read the Review, etc.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry V. there.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'Read in the Review.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'
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