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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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details.
I
I
do
not
know
of
any
Journal
written
at
Racedown,
and
I
do
not
think
that
Dorothy
kept
one
while
she
and
her
brother
lived
in
Dorsetshire.
In
July
1797
they
took
up
their
residence
at
Alfoxden;
but,
so
far
as
is
known,
it
was
not
till
the
20th
of
January
1798
that
Dorothy
began
to
write
a
Journal
of
her
own
and
her
brother's
life
at
that
place.
It
was
continued
uninterruptedly
till
Thursday,
22nd
May
1798.
It
gives
numerous
details
as
to
the
visits
of
Coleridge
to
Alfoxden,
and
the
Wordsworths'
visits
to
him
at
Nether-Stowey,
as
well
as
of
the
circumstances
under
which
several
of
their
poems
were
composed.
Many
sentences
in
the
Journal
present
a
curious
resemblance
to
words
and
phrases
which
occur
in
the
poems;
and
there
is
no
doubt
that,
as
brother
and
sister
made
use
of
the
same
note-book--some
of
Wordsworth's
own
verses
having
been
written
by
him
in
his
sister's
journal--the
copartnery
may
have
extended
to
more
than
the
common
use
of
the
same
MS.
The
archaic
spellings
which
occur
in
this
Journal
are
retained;
but
inaccuracies--such
as
Bartelmy
for
Bartholemew,
Crewkshank
for
Cruikshank--are
corrected.
In
the
edition
of
1889
the
words
were
printed
as
written
in
MS.;
but
it
is
one
thing
to
reproduce
the
bona
fide
text
of
a
journal,
or
the
ipsissima
verba
of
a
poet,
and
quite
another
to
reproduce
the
incorrect
spellings
of
his
sister.
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