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BIOGRAPHY WHERE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LOOKED INWARDS HIS SISTER DOROTHY LOOKED OUT; SHE IS ALL THE MORE INTRIGUING FOR IT, SAYS CAROLINE MOORE

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20080302
Author:CAROLINE MOORE

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

BY FRANCES WILSON

FABER, pounds 18.99, 271 pp

T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

I hope that book-shop browsers will not be

put off this intelligent and intriguing and properly strange biography by the title, or

by the opening page. The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth starts: 'She can stand it no longer ...' and reconstructs Dorothy's disconcertingly intense reactions to her brother William's wedding: 'she throws herself down on the bed where she lies

in a trance, neither seeing nor hearing.'

The historic present is rarely good news in

a ...

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