the constraints of the living conditions at Dove Cottage: she counts the number of bedrooms and works out who slept where, with whom, and why. She describes the immense walks that Dorothy [Wordsworth] took, "with mud-encrusted skirts banging against her sturdy legs, her flimsy shoes, her neck and face often wet and cold, her eyes and ears alert to the beauty of every sight" and the disapproving reactions of family and landladies to this bohemian mode of travel.
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poor Dorothy Wordsworth
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