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Strained tenderness: Wordsworth, Joanna Hutchinson, and the anxiety of sisterly resistance in "To Joanna".(William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20010922
Author:Schmid, Thomas H.

JOANNA HUTCHINSON (1780-1843), WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S YOUNGEST sister-in-law, has been all but forgotten by literary historians of the Wordsworth circle, a fact that has unconsciously reproduced the seeming neglect of Joanna in life by the siblings and in-laws who surrounded Wordsworth from the moment he and Dorothy settled at Dove Cottage, Grasmere in 1799. Yet Joanna Hutchinson presents a unique and important figure in Wordsworth's biography for several reasons, not least of which is the remarkable similarity in her personal history and emotional concerns to Wordsworth's own. This ...

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