Sher's Reviews > The Grasmere Journals

I liked this book very much despite the lack of plot. Written as a diary over a three year period in the early 19th century (1801- 1803) by Dorothy, William Wordworth's sister. She writes about the simple routines and visits of daily life, and if you read and read you get into the flow of their lives, and her life with her brother comes very much alive. I wonder if the book would have been seen worth publishing had she not been Wordworth's sister and had they not had many meetings with Coleridge and other literary luminaries? This book was also interesting because it brought to life scenes from fiction f the period but in a nonfiction setting, so it sort of validated Jane Austen and George Eliot's (later period though) work for me. And, finally the book inspires me to try and bit of diary entry format for my blog about farm life in the Columbia River Basin in Oregon.