A retelling of Chinese folk tales that span 4,000 years of that country's history.

The Flying Horses: Tales from China

Manton, Jo

Gittings, Robert

Collard, Derek

Teen & Young Adult

Henry Holt Co.

Gittings and Manton offer the first biography of Dorothy Wordsworth that treats her as a person in her own right, rather than as an adjunct to her brother or to Coleridge. Her devotion to family and friends is well known, but she was also a woman of problems and contradictions often connected with the changing social and political climate of her time. From the authors' examination of her uncertain health and the nature of her final breakdown, she emerges as more strange and wayward than convention has portrayed.

Dorothy Wordsworth

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

This acclaimed biography of Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's daughter Allegra, draws on her vivid letters and journals to portray a women of talent and resilience making her way in nineteenth-century Europe.

Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879

Gittings, the late Robert

British & Irish

Critics and biographers have too often regarded Dorothy Wordsworth as a mere adjunct to her brother William, or to their mutual friend Samuel Coleridge. The importance of her famous Journals and other writings, it is usually assumed, lies in what they tell us of those poets and their work. This thoughtful, compelling biography is the first book to treat Dorothy Wordsworth as a person in her own right. Drawing on the Journals, her newly re-edited Letters, and later diary material not yet published, the authors give us a portait of a woman more strange yet touchingly human than any previous account has offered. Their interest in her does not stop at the "literary" but goes deeper to explore other facets of her character. They focus especially on her intense familial and domestic devotion, showing us how, from early childhood, she extended her warmth and selflessness to anyone who seemed to need her--a trait that tells us much about her particular intimate attachment to her brother. The book fully explores her relationship with William--their life in the Lake District, their travels together, her influence on how he came to view nature--and also examines the effects upon Dorothy of a changing social and political climate. It delves into her problems, weaknesses, and contradictions and illuminates the nature of her tragic nervous breakdown, which virtually incapacitated her for the last 25 years of her life. As a revealing picture of a woman of the early nineteenth century, Dorothy Wordsworth has an appeal extending well beyond just those readers interested in the Romantic Period. About the Author: Robert Gittings has written acclaimed biographies of Keats and Hardy. Jo Manton is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Anderson and Sister Dora. Husband and wife, they have previously collaborated on The Story of John Keats and The Second Mrs. Hardy.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Claire Clairmont, the step-sister of Mary Shelley, has until now generally been treated as a secondary character in the great dramas of Shelley and Byron. This is the first full account of a long and adventurous life, correcting many misconceptions about her role in the Shelley circle.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Sister Dora: the life of Dorothy Pattison

METHUEN

The flying horses: Tales from China

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Mary Carpenter and the children of the streets

Heinemann Educational Books

First published in 1965. In 1865, a woman first obtained a legal qualification in this country as physician and surgeon. Elizabeth Garrett surprised public opinion by the calm obstinacy with which she fought for her own medical education and that of the young women who followed her.  This full biography is based largely on unpublished material from the hospitals and medical schools where Elizabeth Garrett Anderson worked, and the private papers of the Garrett and Anderson families. This title will be of great interest to history of science students.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century)

Routledge

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The Flying Horses: Tales from China

Dorothy Wordsworth

Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879

Dorothy Wordsworth

Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Sister Dora: the life of Dorothy Pattison

The flying horses: Tales from China

Mary Carpenter and the children of the streets

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century)