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#DW250 is running on #DorothyWordsworthTime (a waterlogged variety of #criptime) but we're enormously grateful to the support of @ace_national, particularly in funding disabled creatives & disabled stories. More coming for DW252 in December! #ThanksToYou https://t.co/ncJZyEdgNP
A #DorothyWordsworth-adjacent history here too - Nelly Rawson was married to John Rawson, the brother of William Rawson, who Dorothy's 'aunt' Elizabeth Threlkeld had married in 1791. DW visited Aunt Rawson in Halifax several times over the years. #DW250
1 January 1824
"Mrs. Rawson of Stoney-Royde called at 1 50/60 and staid 1/4 hour — went down to her immediately"
A rare visit of old Mrs Nelly Rawson, aet 70 here, to #AnneLister at #ShibdenHall.
Anne usually visited HER at Stoney Royd, now demolished, part of cemetery.
#Halifax
Stunning #NorthernLights in the #LakeDistrict last night, seen here over #Grasmere. You're in good company if you missed them though - On her 59th birthday, Christmas Day 1830, #DorothyWordsworth records '#AuroraBorealis which we *did not* see –' #DW250 #LakeDistrictHistory
In her poem, the longing to be out in the air that she admits in her journal, is turned into the stoic acceptance expected of pious disabled people - a warning also not to read poems as simple records of lives or feelings. #DisabilityHistory #DW250 #DorothyWordsworth #Romanticism
Fantastic history of the curious #RockOfNames. #LiteraryTourism #LakeDistrictHistory #RomanticHistory #DW250
Today's #pastpost: Ian Brodie explores the fascinating history of the famous 'Rock of Names' behind the museum @WordsworthGras, engraved with the initials of William, Dorothy, their brother John, William's wife Mary, her sister Sarah, and Coleridge
https://t.co/ojsxNURIpP
The Poor Inhabitant below
Was quick to learn, and wise to know,
And keenly felt the friendly glow
And softer flame;
But thoughtless follies laid him low,
And stain’d his name
#BurnsNight #GraveTourism #PoeticNeighbours #DW250 #LiteraryTourism
Is there a man whose judgment clear
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs himself life’s mad career
Wild as the wave?—
Here let him pause, and through a tear
Survey this grave.
#BurnsNight #GraveTourism #PoeticNeighbours #DW250 #LiteraryTourism
Tonight is #BurnsNight. Dorothy and William visited Burns' grave & house on a tour of Scotland, 1803. Of Dumfries, DW wrote: 'We could think of little else but poor Burns, and his moving about on that unpoetic ground'. #DW250 #RomanticTourism #LiteraryTourism #DorothyWordsworth
This year (1822) in contrast, she writes 'There has been with us one week of delightful sunshine and frost—and now we have weather as mild as the best in spring-time. But what a stormy season for the four months preceding!' #HistoricalWeather #DW250 #CumbriaWeather #OnThisDay
In this letter, #DorothyWordsworth remembers the Clarkson children 'in the decorated kitchen' eating 'plum pudding and Beef' by a 'good fire' in the previous year's deep frosts over #Christmas. #FestiveTraditions #DW250 #HistoricalWeather #CumbriaWeather
#OnThisDay 1822 #DorothyWordsworth writes to her 'dear Friend' #CatherineClarkson: 'I had just left you this time last year ... have thought of you every day since ... and especially upon those two when we always look back, and forward—Christmas day and New Year's day.' #DW250
#OnThisDay in 1803 #DorothyWordsworth records 'I lay in bed to have a Drench of sleep till one o'clock.'
Looking at the drenching weather in Cumbria today I'd think she was on to a good idea. #HistoricalWeather #RomanticWeather #Rain #DW250 #Floods #CumbriaWeather #LieIn
More perfectly soaked than frozen in the lakes this year, but Dorothy would not have liked that one bit. #HistoricalWeather #DW250
#OnThisDay 1833, #DorothyWordsworth writes in her journal:
Monday 7th Jan:—The frosty cold makes a perfect coward of me.
Who else is feeling similarly today, in 2022? 🥶
#DW250 #CumbriaWeather #HistoricalWeather #RomanticWeather
#OnThisDay in 1825 #DorothyWordsworth records a 'Beautiful frosty day. Sunny'. Similarly in 1827 a 'Very fine clear bright day.' #HistoricalWeather #TwelfthNight #TwelfthDayOfChristmas #DW250
#OnThisDay 1824 #DorothyWordsworth records the weather as 'dry cold wind – very clear – poorly myself.'
Weather in #Grasmere today is more like Jan 4 1827: 'Dull & Misty. Too rainy – very cold & windy.' 🥶
#DW250 #HistoricalWeather
We haven't quite had time since Monday to edit all the captions though they have been tidied up for the sections without screen-sharing, and a complete version will be coming some time over Christmastide. #DW250 #Poetry #Music #Christmas
#OnThisDay, #DorothyWordsworth's 251st Birthday - also this thing called #ChristmasDay we heard? - we're sharing a preview of the recording of the event held on the 19th, with poetry, prose and music. Our Virtual Christmas Fireside: https://t.co/5kpCZqi819
#DW250 #OnlineEvent
#OnThisDay, 1771, #DorothyWordsworth is born - 250 yrs ago. Nature writer, travel writer, diarist, poet.
In 1793 she writes to her best friend Jane 'Oh how I long for a Christmas fire-side, surrounded by a circle of my old Friends and companions.'
#DW250 #DecemberWithDorothy
A cold coming they had of it: 'The weather since our arrival has been a keen frost, one morning two thirds of the lake were covered with ice [...] Rydale is covered with ice, clear as polished steel.' #HistoricalWeather #Romanticism #DW250 #Wordsworth
Thanks again to all who came to our Virtual #Christmas Fireside last night, to our brilliant speakers @rommismith @kerriandrewsuk and @VCapildeo and @TheBookshopBand for their #NewSong that might have made us shed a few tears, now available here: https://t.co/ncJZyEdODn #DW250
Tonight! Weather in the lakes has returned to the traditional festive 'thickly pattering rain' (as Dorothy calls it in December 1834) just in time. #DW250 #DorothyWordsworth #FestiveGathering #OnlineEvent
Join us at a pre-birthday zoom party for #DorothyWordsworth's 251st. On 8pm GMT, December 19th huddle round our Virtual Christmas Fireside with @VCapildeo @rommismith @kerriandrewsuk and a video preview of the new DW song by @TheBookshopBand.
https://t.co/YDF9fq2uct #DW250 #Xmas
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