Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum — Open to the public

Museum or gallery in Cumbria

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Dove Cottage was the home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth between 1799 and 1808. Their manuscripts, books and portraits, along with those of other key figures of Romanticism, are displayed in the adjacent museum. The Jerwood Centre, opened 2005, holds the main collection of 65,000 items, which also includes paintings and drawings of the Lake District.

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Town End, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9SH England

enquiries@wordsworth.org.uk

015394 35544

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http://www.wordsworth.org.uk

Thomas Walmsley (1763–1806)
Thomas Woolner (1825–1892)
Henry William Pickersgill (1782–1875)
George Howland Beaumont (1753–1827)
Sven Berlin (1911–1999)
John Steell (1804–1891)
Joseph Gott (1785–1860)
Conrad Atkinson (b.1940)
Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817)
Christopher Bucklow (b.1957)

The Romantic poets in art
Lydia Figes

11 October 2022
Refuge from the Ravens: Pop-up Poetry
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
12 October 2022
Poetry, Paint and Performance: Seeing into the life of things
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
19 October 2022
An Evening with Holly Hopkins
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
10 November 2022
The Wordsworths and India
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
23 November 2022
An Evening with Arji Manuelpillai
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
14 December 2022
An Evening with Greta Stoddart
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum