Kathleen Jones

Dorothy Wordsworth,  just like Virginia Woolf, needed the peace and quiet of the countryside for 'spiritual and physical health'. Like Virginia, Dorothy kept a detailed  journal of her life in Somerset and later in the Lake District. Her descriptions of the wild, rural landscape and the people who lived in it are considered so important that they are now preserved in UNESCO's Memory of the World project. Dorothy was part of a creative household which included her brother William and, frequently, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Dorothy's diaries and travel journals detail the context for their poetry as well as her love for the natural world.

• Thursday, 6th June 2024
• 4:00pm
• Main House
• £13.00