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- Title
Wordsworth’s Family’s ‘Consumption’: A New Letter, 12 March 1833.
- Authors
Reed, Mark L.
- Abstract
The article presents a 1833 letter by English poet William Wordsworth, dictated to his wife Mary Wordsworth, to his family friend, the surgeon surgeon John Gardner of London, England. The letter was written regards the health of Wordsworth's nephew and ward John Wordsworth who was serving a medical apprenticeship at the Gardner home. Details of the Wordsworth family medical history, particularly related to consumption, or tuberculosis, is presented.
- Subjects
WORDSWORTH, William, 1770-1850; 19TH century English poets; POETS' correspondence; FAMILY history (Medicine); GARDNER, John; WORDSWORTH, Mary, 1770-1859; WORDSWORTH, John; HISTORY of tuberculosis
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2014, Vol 61, Issue 4, p545
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gju171