The Poets' Daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge - Couverture souple

Waldegrave, Katie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099537346 ISBN 13 : 9780099537342

Editeur : Windmill Books, 2014

Synopsis

Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, were life-long friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the Romantic Age.

Living in the shadow of their fathers’ extraordinary fame brought Sara and Dora great privilege, but at a terrible cost. In different ways, each father almost destroyed his daughter. Growing up in the shadow of genius, each girl made it her life’s ambition to dedicate herself to her father’s writing and reputation. Anorexia, drug addiction and depression were part of the legacy of fame, but so too were great friendship and love.

Drawing on a host of new sources, Katie Waldegrave tells the never-before-told story of how two young women, born into greatness, shaped their own legacies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Windmill Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099537346
• ISBN 13: 9780099537342
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; kundenservice@penguinrandomhouse.de; ; Neumarkter Straße 28; München; Bayern; 81673; Allemagne