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A Passionate Sisterhood is a distressing portrayal of the situation of women in the early years of the .

A Passionate Sisterhood is a distressing portrayal of the situation of women in the early years of the nineteenth century, even women, like the subjects of this group portrait, who were living unconventional and potentially intellectual lives. Or, perhaps, especially those women. Kathleen Jones does not sensationalise; she doesn't need to. The appalling catalogue of physical and mental ill-health, of mind-numbing drudgery and the deaths of children, of affection and oppression, speaks for itself. At least that's how it feels with the unobtrusive structuring and the self-effacing eloquence of this skilled biographer. A Passionate Sisterhood is a deeply human document.

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Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a servant, Catherine Cookson was brought up in Tyneside in one of the poorest communities of the western world. A Passionate Sisterhood: Women of the Wordsworth Circle.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index. Brothers and sisters - three milliners from Bath - A state of dependence - Love's first phantasies - The German experiment - The Lakers - A plaited nest - Phantoms and chimeras - prejudice and prepossession - The triad - Lost children - Dobrizhoffered - The legacy of genius -. - From poetry to prose.

But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family that kept the group together long after the men had ceased to be friends. Based on necessity, it was far from the harmonious rustic idyll of the myth. Dorothy Wordsworth's consuming love for her brother William forced Mary, his wife, to compete for her husband's affections for more than forty years. A Passionate Sisterhood - Kathleen Jones. Kathleen Jones was born and brought up on a hill farm in the Lake District.

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Kathleen Jones has written a group biography of the sisters, wives, and daughters of the Lake poets in England in the first half of the nineteenth century.