The Poets’ Daughters – Katie Waldegrave

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poets who shaped the Romantic age, were best friends. So too, were their daughters. But this was not a recipe for an idyllic upbringing. In different ways each poet almost destroyed his daughter. Kate Waldegrave divulges how these poets’ daughters survived, to shape their own legacies. ‘An important and moving book…’ Literary Review