News at Eleven: There is nothing in Dorothy [Wordsworth]'s writing

to suggest that from girlhood she seemed destined to live like "a sterile bud"; on the contrary, she comes across as someone who responds to her physical environment with open arms, someone acutely alert to the pleasures of the senses, who wants nothing more than to love and be loved in a home of her own. The problem with Dorothy Wordsworth is not, I suggest, that she did not experience or excite desire but that the idea of her doing so makes her readers so uncomfortable.

from The New York Times: First Chapter: 'The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth'

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