Volume 48, Number 17 · November 1, 2001
The Group
By Anne Barton
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802
by John Worthen
Yale University Press, 344 pp., $30.00
William, as she presumably knew, at this time saw no newspapers, 'not even a weekly one, so that I am in utter ignorance of what is doing in the world.' Guessing that there might be a letter from London waiting, and what it would contain, she determined to deliver it personally to the Wordsworths, while offering what comfort she could in what she was aware would be a situation of appalling grief. Certainly she does not seem to have been expected on the 11th at Grasmere. Sara herself may well have been contemplating marriage to John Wordsworth, and her prompt action was not only generous but seems little short of heroic.
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