Dorothy’s fascination with nature is also presented through a Romantic lens, which makes it far wilder and more bohemian than it might appear to a modern eye. Against this background she comes over as a dangerous, unstable, even transgressive figure—a woman on the edge in many senses.
--The Economist, Woman on the edge, April 8, 2009, review of
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life, by Frances Wilson
Recommended reading:
by Dorothy Wordsworth at
Reading RatCriticism (articles, essays, reviews):
Dorothy Wordsworth: The Perfect Sister, by George Mallaby, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1950
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