I too seem to remember being told about Wordsworth's brother. I've
never come across this written down. Not that written things are
necessarily true.
Now it strikes me as wish fulfillment -- you imagine favorite people
from history meeting one another,
Ellen
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 9:44?PM Nancy Mayer via groups.io
<regencyresearcher@...> wrote:
I have heard that one of the friendships with a man was with Wordsworth's
brother at a seashore.
Nancy
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 7:56?PM Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody=
[email protected]> wrote:
I know most of the people because I xeroxed (this was before the
Internet became ubiquitous) a very thick volume of letters, documents,
diaries put together by her brother's son and a grandson and then read
it. I think it's now an expensive facsimile reprint. I also bought and
read several of the biographies of the family as a group and
individuals. I still don't know them all. Those in the novel are
identified and their relationship to one another briefly described.
There was an Isabella and a Dr Nidderdale. The romance by the seashore
was written vaguely; no name was ever given. Two more suitors beyond
Lefroy and Biggs-Wither are in the letters but the flirtation or
attachment or relationship or whatever you want to call it came
earlier.
Ellen
On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 7:44?PM Tyler Tichelaar via groups.io
<tyler@...> wrote:
I never have enough time either, Ellen. I am also enjoying Miss Austen,
though I find it a bit hard to keep track of the characters and the family
connections. It does make me want to read Austen's letters.
Tyler
Ellen Moody