Drawing on a host of new sources, Katie Waldegrave tells the never-before-told story of Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge.
Katie Waldegrave, formerly Head of History at Cranford Community College in West London, now runs First Story - a charity she founded with author William Fiennes in 2008. The Poets' Daughters is her first book.
Meticulously researched ... a fascinating snapshot of one of the
most interesting periods in British intellectual and artistic
history …Waldegrave … brings the story of these two women’s lives
brilliantly alive.
*Sunday Times*
[An] important and moving book . . . quite simply fascinating ...
[Dora and Sara] emerge from these pages as intensely knowable;
never has the cost of being a daughter of Romanticism been shown
with more sympathy and imagination.
*Literary Review*
A gripping narrative ... This insightful and compassionate book ...
is a powerful addition to the recent literature that has enlarged
our understanding of women whose lives – until now – have remained
obscured by those dominant male writers of their time.
*New Statesman*
To find a fresh story to tell about an already formidably
chronicled group of historical figures is an accomplishment in
itself, but for weaving such a fascinating familial case history
out of the material, Waldegrave deserves considerable praise.
*Observer*
[A] riveting family saga …Katie Waldegrave is non-judgemental … She
has negotiated the mountains of material and the emotional swamps
with skill and clarity.
*The Spectator*
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