Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals of Scotland: The Creation of the Romantic Author

The increase in popularity of the Home Tour 19th century and publication many journals, diaries, guides tours Scotland by, such as, Samuel Johnson James Boswell, led to perception as a literary tour destination. invariably resulted journal which identities writer, traveller, observer, were created. text became location for pursuit sense place identity. For women particular, offered opportunities be accepted writer commentator. Dorothy Wordsworth made two journeys Scotland: first, 1803, with William Taylor Coleridge, second, 1822 Joanna Hutchinson, sister Mary, her brother’s wife. This paper considers Dorothy’s identity constructed those Scottish journals. Discussions have tended consider through familial relationship, writing by what is lacking work. Indeed, work are frequently subsumed into plural ‘the Wordsworths’. creation individual self work, discusses social spatial construction discourse journals about Scotland.