This Long Pursuit

  Woman Reading William Blake (collection), 310

  women: and science, 16, 23, 38, 114–16; biographies of, 57; excluded from membership of scientific societies, 114; education, 194

  Wood, Anthony à, 48

  Woolf, Virginia: and biography, 66–7; on Margaret Cavendish, 132; affair with Vita Sackville-West, 151; essay on Mary Wollstonecraft, 192; Flush, 60; Orlando, 56, 59, 67

  Wordsworth, Dorothy: relations with Coleridge, 8, 13; Coleridge describes, 291

  Wordsworth, Mary (née Hutchinson), 13

  Wordsworth, William: relations with Coleridge, 8–9, 11, 13; and Humphry Davy, 21; and science, 23, 26; criticises biography, 52; quarrel with Coleridge, 103; reads Blake in manuscript, 310; Anne Gilchrist plans life of, 338; ‘Daffodils’, 299; Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge), 290; The Prelude, 26

  Wren, Sir Christopher, 114

  Wroe, Ann: Pilate, 60

  Wulf, Andrea: The Invention of Nature, 31

  Wylie, Georgiana (George Keats’s wife), 228–30

  Yale Center for British Art, New Haven: Lawrence exhibition, 264–5

  Yeats, William Butler, 309

  Young, Edward: Night Thoughts, 311

  Zélide see Tuyll, Isabelle de

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