'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read Mrs Hutchinson's account of the troubles there in Oliver Cromwell's time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach me till the night before last. I believe we all have read it, and are much pleased with it.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'We have not yet been sufficiently settled to read any thing but Novels. Adeline Mowbray made us quite sick before we got to the end of it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson [about 14 Sept. 1813]: 'We have had no time to read Newspapers [with decoration of Rydal Mount] but have been obliged to content ourselves with William's report even of the late most important battles in Germany and all other proceedings. Murders we do read and were horror struck with that of Mr and Mrs Brown and the confession of the murderer ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
Dorothy Wordsworth describes Wordsworth family's anxieties at hearing (false)rumour of death of Tom Clarkson, in letter to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'We anxiously examined the newspapers, and their silence [as well as letters] ... strengthened by degrees our hopes with a firm conviction that it was all false.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Newspaper
William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it ... Nothing in your works has charmed us more than the lively manner in which the painting of everything that passes before your eyes is executed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: "We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unite in thinking it excellently adapted to the occasion."
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the Times, which has brought us this Intelligence, has agitated my Family and myself much by containing, in a most conspicuous part of it, an advertisement declaratory of Mr Brougham's intention once more to disturb the County of West[morla]nd.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Newspaper
William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the Times, which has brought us this Intelligence, has agitated my Family and myself much by containing, in a most conspicuous part of it, an advertisement declaratory of Mr Brougham's intention once more to disturb the County of West[morla]nd.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'Extracts from [John] Barrow's Travels in China appear in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very good man in a truly christian spirit ... "'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
'[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
'[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 April 1800 ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Manuscript: Unknown
'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup medicine ... entered in the Commonplace Book.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Newspaper
Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Duncan Wu identifies poem transcribed in Wordsworth Commonplace Book and opening 'Sweet scented flow'r! who'rt wont to bloom / On January's front severe ... ' as Henry Kirke White, "To the herb Rosemary".
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Manuscript: Unknown
'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pulled on New-years Day, and sent to M. Wilson," copied onto a duodecimo double sheet, have been pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
'... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own hand, was pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... after 19 Jan. 1801, the date of W[ordsworth]'s first known meeting with Wilkinson.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Birds which gave us all very great pleasure."'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 18 November 1801: 'We sate in the house in the morning reading Spenser.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 30 November 1801: '[after walk with William Wordsworth and Mary Hutchinson] We came home and read ...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, and read Chaucer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson on 4 October 1802 spent:
'... [at Kirby] we went to the Churchyard [Kirby Moorside Churchyard] after we had put a letter [announcing the marriage] into the Post-office for the York Herald. We sauntered about, and read the Grave-stones. There was one to the memory of five children ... There was another stone erected to the memory of an unfortunate woman ... The verses engraved upon it expressed that she had been neglected by her Relations, and counselled the readers of those words to look within, and recollect their own frailties. We left Kirby at about half-past two.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: tombstone epitaph
Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay from William Michael Rossetti. When the Wordsworths saw it ... they were outraged. Not only had Rossetti made some factual errors, he had presented the poet in an unflattering light ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay from William Michael Rossetti. When the Wordsworths saw it ... they were outraged. Not only had Rossetti made some factual errors, he had presented the poet in an unflattering light ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
