Recovering Dorothy

Recovering Dorothy
Author: Polly Atkin
Publisher: Saraband
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1915089654

The first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth’s later life and work and the impact of her disability – allowing her to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother’s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story.

Somerset Homecoming

Somerset Homecoming
Author: Dorothy Spruill Redford
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807848432

The story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place plantation.

The Grasmere Journals

The Grasmere Journals
Author: Dorothy Wordsworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1993
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780192831309

Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals, begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and continued for nearly three years until January 1803, is perhaps the best-loved of all journals. Noting the walks and the weather, the friends, country neighbors and beggars on the roads, William Wordsworth's marriage, the composition of poetry, and their concern for Coleridge, her words bring those first years to vivid and intimate life. This edition has been prepared directly from the manuscripts with undeciphered words clarified, first thoughts, later insertions and deletions indicated, and Dorothy's hasty punctuation largely restored. It also offers rich explanatory notes, containing much new detail on friends and family, the scarcely-known people of the Grasmere valley, the books that were read, and the connections with William Wordsworth's poetry.

Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors
Author: Dorothy Marie England
Publisher: Forward Movement
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1995-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780880281669

In this deceptively simple little book, Ms. England has made accessible for both professionals and the general public the theory linking neurochemical science to the behaviors and relational patterns observed in persons with addictions and those who love them. As a professional working with families ravaged by addiction, and as a member of Al-Anon seeking to grow and be a good steward of the life experiences that are mine, I am challenged by this book to seek ways to apply its techniques with clients and my own life...Ms. England's book reminds me in the particularly memorable way of any good story...that there is both danger and delight in this activity of living.

Depression

Depression
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135452008

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. Dorothy Rowe shows us that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder but a defence against pain and fear, which we can use whenever we suffer a disaster and discover that our life is not what we thought it was. Depression is an unwanted consequence of how we see ourselves and the world. By understanding how we have interpreted events in our life we can choose to change our interpretations and thus create for ourselves a happier, more fulfilling life. Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison is for depressed people, their family and friends, and for all professionals and non-professionals who work with depressed people.

Trash

Trash
Author: Dorothy Allison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101117818

Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story. First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling. A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allison's legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.

Filling the Void

Filling the Void
Author: Dorothy Bullitt
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1996
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780684818696

Bullitt wrote this book when she couldn't find the guide she needed to lead her out of her crises. It is told through the gripping personal stories of those she has known and counseled, who have found their way out of despair by following the six-step plan described here. The dynamic program is for those mourning the loss of a loved one, a marriage, a job, property, money and more.

Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson

Finding Dorothy: A Biography of Dorothy Gibson
Author: Randy Bryan Bigham
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-04-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1105520080

Edwardian cover girl and silent screen star Dorothy Gibson survived the Titanic, a disastrous marriage, even the horrors of a World War II concentration camp, but history didn't spare her. Randy Bryan Bigham reclaims the story of a life forgotten. Finding Dorothy, the first biography of model and actress Dorothy Gibson (1889-1946), provides an analysis of her work as the muse of artist Harrison Fisher, and offers a critique of her brief but successful career as one of the first leading ladies in American silent cinema. Dorothy Gibson's experiences in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic are related in detail as is the making of Saved From the Titanic, the first motion picture produced about the disaster, in which Dorothy herself starred. 6x9 Hardcover Dust Jacket 179 pp, 84 ill. First Published 2005 New Edition Released 2012 Revised Edition Printed 2014

Recovering Identity

Recovering Identity
Author: Cesraéa Rumpf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0520376994

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts." While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalization and the violence and dehumanization that followed. Honoring criminalized women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.

Love Personified

Love Personified
Author: Jill Ashby Woodward
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1387351192

"Material blessings always come and are a great joy at the time they are received. In due time they grow old and tattered and are discarded. They are the source of temporary happiness, but temporary only. True and lasting happiness is in our hearts. It is a peace of mind in the knowledge that we are doing God's will and living the good life. Being happy is important to good health. Happiness can only be attained by a practice of good thoughts toward all mankind; good wishes for everyone and a true generosity with all our worldly possessions; for truly it is more blessed to give than to receive." This is the true story of Dorothy Kelley Ashby, a devout Catholic, and her struggle for emotional peace, financial security and happiness for her Pearl Harbor-surviving husband and her family. Dorothy's life was not a bed of roses! She had her challenges-some beyond her capacity to fix-yet she continued to endure and faced all things with charity, faith, and composed grace.