Jane & Dorothy
Subtitle: a true tale of sense and sensibilty
By: Marian Veevers
Publisher: Sandstone Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781910985779; 9781681776781
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: English Women authors; Biography; English Authors
Description: Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth never met, but they had much in common. Born in the 1770s in Georgian England, to a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, they were both influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordswsorth, and his friends. They were supremely gifted writers yet suffered the frustrations of talented women of their age who had no independent income. Neither ever married. Jane and Dorothy uses each life to reflect light on the other, examining their emotional and creative worlds. In placing them in their historical and social context, Marian Veevers highlights the plight of single women of that era, who had little control over their lives. It also includes new insights: there has been much speculation about the true nature of Dorothy and William's relationship and Marian Veevers has discovered a missing piece of the puzzle; she also debunks enduring myths surrounding the one man who seems to have stolen Jane's heat--only to break it. -- Inside jacket flap.
Notes: Various printings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: The inward secrets of our hearts; title: Gentlemen's daughters; title: Little prattlers among men; title: Original sin; title: Fashionably educated and left without a fortune; title: Love and friendship; title: Ladies of the rectory; title: A happy command of language; title: Considering the future; title: Falling in love; title: Betrayal; title: Journeys, brothers, freedom and confinement; title: A house of my own; title: An experiment in liberty; title: My own darling child; title: A small revolution; title: Poetry and prose; title: A maid whom there were none to praise; title: Homecoming and exile; title: Exercised to constraint; title: Our affections do rebel; title: Very capable of loving; title: Marriage: the settlement we should aim at; title: Writing and publication; title: My father cannot provide for us; title: Another exile, another homecoming; title: Beyond 1809; title: A natural sequel to an unnatural beginning?