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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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VIII
The
Journal
of
a
Mountain
Ramble,
by
William
and
Dorothy
Wordsworth
in
November
1805,
calls
for
no
special
remark.
The
ramble
was
from
Grasmere
by
Rydal
and
Kirkstone
Pass
to
Patterdale
and
Ullswater,
thence
to
the
top
of
Place
Fell,
at
the
foot
of
which
Wordsworth
thought
of
buying--and
did
afterwards
buy--a
small
property
near
the
Lake,
thence
to
Yanworth,
returning
to
Grasmere
by
Kirkstone
again.
The
story
of
this
"ramble,"
written
by
Dorothy,
was
afterwards
incorporated
in
part
by
William
Wordsworth
in
his
prose
Description
of
the
Scenery
of
the
Lakes--another
curious
instance
of
their
literary
copartnery.
IX
In
1820
the
poet,
his
wife,
and
sister,
along
with
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Monkhouse,
and
Miss
Horrocks
(a
sister
of
Mrs.
Monkhouse),
spent
more
than
three
months
on
the
Continent.
They
left
Lambeth
on
the
10th
of
July,
and
returned
to
London
in
November.
Starting
from
Dover
on
11th
July,
they
went
by
Brussels
to
Cologne,
up
the
Rhine
to
Switzerland,
were
joined
by
Henry
Crabb
Robinson
at
Lucerne,
crossed
over
to
the
Italian
Lakes,
visited
Milan,
came
back
to
Switzerland,
and
passed
through
France
to
Paris,
where
they
spent
a
month.
Dorothy
Wordsworth
wrote
a
minute
and
very
careful
Journal
of
this
tour,
taking
notes
at
the
time,
and
extending
them
on
her
return
to
Westmoreland.
Mrs.
Wordsworth
kept
a
shorter
record
of
the
same
journey.
Crabb
Robinson
also
wrote
a
diary
of
it.
Wordsworth
recorded
and
idealised
his
tour
in
a
series
of
poems,
named
by
him
"Memorials
of
a
Tour
on
the
Continent,
1820,"
very
few
of
which
were
written
on
the
spot;
and
when,
in
the
after-leisure
of
Rydal
Mount,
he
set
to
work
upon
them,
it
is
evident
that
he
consulted,
and
made
frequent
use
of,
the
two
family
Journals,
particularly
the
one
written
by
his
sister.
In
a
letter
to
Mrs.
Clarkson
from
Coblentz,
dated
22nd
July,
Dorothy
said:
"Journals
we
shall
have
in
abundance;
for
all,
except
my
brother
and
Mrs.
Monkhouse,
keep
a
journal.
Mine
is
nothing
but
notes,
unintelligible
to
any
one
but
myself.
I
look
forward,
however,
to
many
a
pleasant
hour's
employment
at
Rydal
Mount
in
filling
up
the
chasms."
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