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Title: The wives and daughters of the Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth
Review: The book is a treat for those interested in the history of everyday domestic life, especially female life. The readers learns a great deal about the normal events of courtship, marrying, friendship, birthing, raising children, educating them, keeping house, caring for the sick, and mortality, as well as the values and standards of conduct that existed in the past, some different from now, but some the same. It is all made more fascinating in that it is about the women of the famous poets: the wives Sarah Coleridge, Mary Wordsworth, and Edith Southey, and the sister Dorothy Wordsworth, and the daughters. The book has a lovely gossipy quality. We learn about the characters and relationships, what they thought of each other, what they liked and disliked. I am sure they never imagined that their lives would be the subject of a book.
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