The White Doe of Rylstone

Originally composed in 1807-8, The White Doe tells the story of the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569. The present copy is the first edition, quarto,1815, in its original boards, with annotations in the hand of Mary Wordsworth for its publication in Miscellaneous Poems, 1820.

Item author: William Wordsworth
Item date: 1815
Grant Value: £3,000
Item cost: £9,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria