In an age when women walking by themselves – let alone in the remote uplands – was frowned upon, this was a daring feat. Wordsworth is best known as the poet William Wordsworth’s sister. The siblings ...

2008); and she was also the associate editor of Last Poems of William Wordsworth: 1821-1850 (Cornell UP, 1999). She began her academic career at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she ...