Lynn Shepherd, Author at Wordsworth Grasmere

The Apothecary of the Revelations, or The Devil with Too Many Tales (sic)

by Gareth Evans The satirical print grew in popularity as a profitable sideline for 18th-century London print shops. Generally, the…

Lynn Shepherd10th January 2025

William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

‘Schemes of Retirement’: William Wordsworth and Building in the Lakes

by Charity Ford I had been off an airplane for four days and an intern at Wordsworth Grasmere for only…

Lynn Shepherd16th November 2024

Claire Clairmont Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Shelley, Amelia Curran, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci

by Ian Reynolds The Irish painter Amelia Curran (1775-1847) is best known for the painting of Percy Bysshe Shelley which…

Lynn Shepherd22nd March 2024

Dorothy Wordsworth William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Wordsworth for Children

by Daniel Brocklehurst Have you ever had the feeling that there is something slightly infantile about many of William…

Lynn Shepherd30th November 2023

Contemporary creative responses The work of the Wordsworth Trust

A 21st-century Détournement of Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth rewritten by homeless Britain

by Jeffrey C. Robinson "The ‘experiment,’ we think, has failed...” (Robert Southey on Lyrical Ballads) Reading some of the first…

Lynn Shepherd25th August 2023

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

“I shall try what I can do in the Apothecary line”: John Keats’s medical years

by Mellany Ambrose John Keats spent five years, a fifth of his tragically short life, studying and training to…

Lynn Shepherd21st June 2023

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Sharp practice? New light on Keats’s final journey

Review of a talk by Alessandro Gallenzi at the Oxford Literary Festival by Lynn Shepherd “Why would we need…

Lynn Shepherd31st March 2023

Percy Bysshe Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

A life in Shelley

by Nick Smith Fifty years ago, in January 1971, a small boy picked out a hefty, gold-embossed volume from his…

Lynn Shepherd24th February 2023

Mary Shelley Wordsworth and Romanticism

Welcome to the House of Frankenstein

Andrew Weltch visits the new 'Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein' in Bath Is it a museum? A pop-art exhibition? A…

Lynn Shepherd1st February 2023

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part III

by Ian Reynolds This is the third in a series of linked posts My first and second posts looked at…

Lynn Shepherd11th January 2023

Lynn Shepherd

The Apothecary of the Revelations, or The Devil with Too Many Tales (sic)

‘Schemes of Retirement’: William Wordsworth and Building in the Lakes

Shelley, Amelia Curran, and the portrait of Beatrice Cenci

Wordsworth for Children

A 21st-century Détournement of Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth rewritten by homeless Britain

“I shall try what I can do in the Apothecary line”: John Keats’s medical years

Sharp practice? New light on Keats’s final journey

A life in Shelley

Welcome to the House of Frankenstein

The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part III

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