Jane and Dorothy Berroco and bluer and stronger than

and bluer and stronger than sweet william — called also gaiety

with its faltering finances overseen by elderly matriarch Cecily

With a single movement of your hand you can make reptiles appear before you

and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales

Jane and Dorothy Berroco and bluer and stronger thanJane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, but their lives have never been examined together before. They both lived in Georgian England, navigated strict social conventions and new ideals, and they were both influenced by Dorothys brother, the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and his coterie. They were both supremely talented writers yet often lacked