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What’s On
Dove Cottage and
the Wordsworth Museum
October 2018 – March 2019
Welcome
Welcome to the autumn/ will also have three poets-in-residence
this season and look forward to them
winter edition of What’s meeting you through readings and
On, your guide to all the workshops.
events and activities taking There are three regular gatherings
place at Dove Cottage and that take place every month (except
the Wordsworth Museum January) for poetry and history
enthusiasts: Grasmere History Group,
between October and March. Dove Cottage Poets and Discover
We have a fantastic selection of talks Poetry evenings. All are welcome to
by experts in the fields of literature come along to any meeting, whether
and history with interests as varied as you live in the area or are visiting for
the life and work of Dora Wordsworth, the day.
early women mountaineers, and trees
Finally, during the school holidays there
with literary connections as tourist
are wonderful opportunities for families
attractions. We also seek to gain a
with children. From eco-art workshops
fresh perspective on our collection by
creating pictures with natural materials
inviting local practising artists, and
to spooky story sessions in Twilight
our curator, to spend time with chosen
Tales, our Education Team promise an
items and then share their thoughts
exciting and entertaining experience for
and feelings.
children of all ages.
The winter allows us an opportunity
This is going to be a great, and very
to close Dove Cottage to the general
exciting, year at Dove Cottage. We look
public on Tuesdays in December and
forward to seeing you soon.
use it as a place to share our current
research and interests. Wordsworth
Trust staff will share their perspective
Jeff Cowton,
on a topic of their choice in a short talk
Curator & Head of Learning
in the houseplace, accompanied by tea
and toast made on the open fire in the
kitchen. These events are always very
popular so do book in advance.
As well as exploring Romantic poetry
and history, we will also showcase
contemporary poetry being written
in Cumbria, and beyond, today. We
are very pleased to host celebrations
for newly published collections in the
autumn and for The Poetry Business
Writing School in the early spring. We
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Talks
‘Touchwood’ Trees: Literary Relics and Dora Wordsworth, Artist only have been written in its own time
Memory Culture Saturday 17 November, 3.00 – 4.00pm and place? Professor Fiona Sampson,
Saturday 6 October, 3.00 – 5.00pm author of In Search of Mary Shelley,
An introduction to Dora, second child
considers this fascinating question in
From Milton’s mulberry at Cambridge of William and Mary Wordsworth, by
our annual London lecture.
to Pope’s willow at Twickenham, from Pamela Woof, esteemed Wordsworth
Byron’s oak at Newstead Abbey to scholar and former President of the Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, Malet
Keats’s plum in Hampstead, trees Wordsworth Trust. Dora’s physical self Street, London, WC1E 7HU; free
became tourist attractions, sources of was fragile, but her spirit was alive and
souvenirs, and popular signs of literary intense. Her perception of how the
heritage. If you have ever gathered world looked was uniquely her own, ‘Active Climbers of the Hills’: Women
leaves, pressed flowers, or collected and it was with generous and loving in the Mountains, 1787 – 1829
acorns on your travels, you may be a feeling that she reached out to others. Saturday 1 December, 3.00 – 4.00pm
modern-day arboreal tourist! This talk This lecture will offer glimpses of Dora
by Paul Westover of Brigham Young Dorothy Wordsworth described her
as a child, schoolgirl, daughter, niece,
University will explore the meanings of friend Miss Barker, with whom she
friend, wife, horse-woman, collector,
these trees, their importance for literary ascended Scafell Pike in 1818, as
traveller, writer and artist.
memory, and the symbolic work they did ‘an active Climber of the hills’. Miss
as 19th-century Americans attempted Jerwood Centre, £5 Barker was one of many women
(figuratively and literally) to transplant who participated in the invention of
literary culture to the New World. mountaineering during the Romantic
Annual London Lecture: ‘A Daedalus period. In this talk, Simon Bainbridge
Jerwood Centre, £5
for the Romantic Era? Mary Shelley’s of Lancaster University will explore
Frankenstein’ this little-known aspect of the early
Diary of a Bipolar Explorer Thursday 22 November, 6.00 – 7.00pm history of climbing, introducing a
Saturday 17 November, 11.00am – 1.00pm number of pioneering women climbers
Both Frankenstein and the Daedalus
After retiring as Professor of English and describing their adventurous
myth address our fear of the
Language and Literature at Oxford ascents, in a number of which they
exceptional individual who abuses
University in 2016, Lucy Newlyn, a Patron were seen to outperform their male
his talents by overreaching: the
of the Wordsworth Trust and expert on counterparts.
maker who doesn’t know when
English Romantic poetry, felt able to to stop. Both create capacious Jerwood Centre, £5
write and publish an account of her life archetypes, with plenty of space
with bipolar disorder. Diary of a Bipolar to explore ambivalence and even
Explorer describes how she coped admiration alongside that fear. An Afternoon with Grasmere
with the condition and discovered that But Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein History Group
reading and writing poetry helped her
takes us considerably further than Saturday 5 January, 3.00 – 4.00pm
to understand and manage it. We are
the composite Daedalus story in
pleased to welcome Lucy to Grasmere to It has become an annual tradition to
a number of directions: political,
talk about her experiences and lead some spend the first Saturday afternoon of
ethical, existential and scientific. All
workshop activities to help us understand the year with Grasmere History Group,
seem particularly pertinent to British
the positive impact of poetry reading and reviewing and celebrating the research
Romantic experience of society and
writing on our own mental health. and discoveries made by the group in
the self. But is it a paradox that this
Jerwood Centre, £5 the previous year. There will be a series Dora Wordsworth
apparently universalisable myth could
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of short talks by group members and collection. There will also be a
followed by an informal discussion of printing-press demonstration using
ideas for the forthcoming year over Thomas Bewick’s woodblock images
tea and coffee. from Iain’s collection.
Jerwood Centre, free Jerwood Centre, free
New Views for a New Year Wordsworth’s ‘Yew-Trees’ Revisited
Saturday 19 January, 9 February, Wednesday 20 February, 2.15 – 3.15pm
9 March; 2.00 – 3.30pm
In our annual Jonathan Wordsworth
Working in collaboration with Memorial Lecture, Professor John
Prism Arts, we invite emerging and Strachan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Bath
developing artists working in Cumbria Spa University, will take a detailed
to come and spend time with our look at Wordsworth’s great 1803 lyric
collection up close to offer a fresh on the ancient Lakeland yew trees at
perspective on objects that we see Lorton Vale and Borrowdale, and the
and work with every day. They will critical comment and controversies
share their thoughts and discoveries which the poem has produced since its
with us in lively conversation first publication.
accompanied by tea and cake.
Jerwood Centre, £5 (free to
Jerwood Centre, £5 Wordsworth Winter School
participants)
Celebrating the Life and Work of
Iain Bain A Curator’s View
Saturday 16 February, 2.00 – 4.00pm Saturday 16 March, 3.00 – 4.00pm
Iain Bain, who died in April this year, This season our Curator Jeff Cowton
will be best remembered as a world is feeling inspired to explore more
authority on 19th-century engraver of the amazing art pieces in the
Thomas Bewick. He built up an Wordsworth Trust’s collection. Every
incredible collection of manuscripts, week for the next few months, he is
papers, books and images over a going to choose a different picture
lifetime of research. The manuscripts and hang it in his office to better
and papers came to Dove Cottage appreciate and look closely at. Come
in 2013 and have been fully the spring, he will share his thoughts
photographed and digitised for free on the process and the artwork, and
worldwide use. On his death, Iain very show some of his favourites in this View of Lodore Waterfall - General Peter Carey, (1774 – 1852).
generously bequeathed to the Trust informal round-table talk.
his printed books and images; these,
Jerwood Centre, £5
with the manuscripts, makes Grasmere
a centre for Bewick research. On
what would have been Iain’s 85th
birthday, we are joined by Peter Quinn
of the Bewick Society and acclaimed
author Jenny Uglow to present an
afternoon of talks in tribute to his life
Iain Bain John Strachan Jeff Cowton Fiona Sampson
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Literature Classes
Further explorations of senses of beauty would make radiant
The Prelude 1805 daily life. He was in love himself but his
Wednesday 3 October, 31 October, personal happiness met impossibilities,
21 November, 19 December, 16 January, and the wider social world of
13 February, 13 March, 10 April; revolution descended for years into
2.15 – 4.00pm violence, murder, massacres on a huge
scale, and war.
We are delighted that Pamela Woof,
a world expert on the Wordsworths The young man thirsted for action,
and a former President of the but settled on a different course:
Wordsworth Trust, is to continue the greater good, in his view, was to
her wonderful literature classes on speak out, to become a poet. How
Wordsworth’s great autobiographical did this come about? We take it up
masterpiece The Prelude for a third in Book VIII. You may be re-reading
year. In her own words: the poem and already familiar with its
movements. You may be quite new
‘Wading once more into the waters of to it. But, as one can step into a river
the meandering river of The Prelude, at various points, so one can enter at
the first English autobiography in any stage into Wordsworth’s mind and
blank verse, we find ourselves again in thinking, and find that there is a lasting
company with two Wordsworths: the truth, a music and a beauty in his
34-year-old writer, and the young man meditative way with words.’
he had been at 22 with all the hopes
and despairs of youth. You are welcome to come along to any
class, whether you have been before
He had believed that with political or not. Some copies of The Prelude
change poverty would disappear 1805 will be provided.
from the earth, that society would
become fluid and flexible, that love Jerwood Centre, £10 each or £70 for a
for humanity would be at the base of season ticket (8 classes)
government decisions, that general
Pamela Woof at the Jerwood Centre
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Dove Cottage Tuesdays an English Opium Eater. Jen Patterson,
Collections Trainee, will discuss how
opium was often at the root of
Romantics and the ‘Orient’
Tuesday 18 December,
11.00am – 12.00pm
de Quincey’s struggles, as it was for
many other people at that time. The age of Romanticism (late 18th and
early 19th centuries) coincided with
We are very privileged to be able to use the houseplace of Dove Dove Cottage, £7 the intense and ruthless expansion
Cottage as the Wordsworth family did – as a place to share a of British colonial influence in Asia.
The Vision of William Wordsworth Cultures previously unknown to the
cup of tea and slices of toast together, accompanied by lively Tuesday 11 December, 11.00am – 12.00pm British public would suddenly provide
conversation and an opportunity to learn something new. In an endless source of inspiration for
‘The inflamed state of one of my eyes
six short, informal talks this December we will hear from six speculation and imagination. Samuel
renders it improbable that I shall be
Wordsworth Trust staff on topics connected to Wordsworth and Taylor Coleridge would write of
able to keep my engagement with you
Emperors of China, Robert Southey
Romanticism that particularly interest them. The refreshments are tomorrow.’ This letter, written in his
of Hinduism, and William Wordsworth
included in the cost of the ticket; the toast will be made on the wife Mary’s hand, is just one of many
would lose his brother John whilst on
open fire in the kitchen during the talk. examples of William Wordsworth’s
business with the infamous East India
struggle with his eyesight. His fear
Company. Ellis Huddart, Collections
that his loss of sight would become
The Third Lake Poet: rediscovering exploration into the life of a man who Trainee, will examine how the Romantic
permanent was an anxiety that recurred
Robert Southey believed that a home wasn’t a home writers fed upon stereotypes of a wild
in his poetry, and was often discussed
Tuesday 4 December, without a great many children and yet lavish ‘East’, and helped to inform
in the correspondence of Mary and
11.00am – 12.00pm kittens, who penned the first version the later Victorian obsession with the
his sister Dorothy. Ella Luo, Education
of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and ‘Orient’.
Trainee, will explore how William
‘My hopes are with the Dead, anon who (controversially!) discouraged Wordsworth’s experience with blindness Dove Cottage, £7
My place with them will be, […] Charlotte Brontë from pursuing a informed his relationship with his family,
Yet leaving here a name, I trust, career in literature. his friends, and his poetry.
That will not perish in the dust.’
So wrote Robert Southey in his 1818
Dove Cottage, £7 Dove Cottage, £7 Plus, don’t miss…
poem ‘My Days among the Dead are ‘Oh! Just, subtle, and mighty opium!’ Wordsworth and Childhood Grasmere Residents’ Afternoon in
Past’. Devastatingly (and somewhat Tuesday 4 December, 2.00 – 3.00pm Tuesday 11 December, 2.00 – 3.00pm Dove Cottage
ironically), Southey’s posthumous Thursday 20 December, 2.30 – 4.30pm
legacy is sorely eclipsed by the Former Dove Cottage tenant Thomas A significant idea that developed in the
celebrity of his fellow Lake Poets, De Quincey was a man of many Romantic era was an understanding It was late afternoon, dark and cold,
Wordsworth and Coleridge, and he’s conflicts. From problems at work at of the importance of childhood. when William and Dorothy Wordsworth
only vaguely remembered today. The Westmorland Gazette to falling Wordsworth drew much inspiration arrived at Dove Cottage for the first
But who was he really, and why has out with the Wordsworths, many were from his own childhood memories and time on 20 December 1799. On this
history been so unkind to him? Join at least partly caused by his addiction in his writing portrays an idealistic wintry December afternoon we invite
Assistant Curator Poppy Garrett for an to opium, as recorded in Confessions of yet cautious character, as well as Grasmere residents to join us in Dove
documenting how his relationship to Cottage for roaring fires, mulled wine,
the natural world was forged. His deep mince pies and carols by candlelight
Robert Southey Wordsworth’s glasses Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an connection to his sister Dorothy also to celebrate the anniversary of that
English Opium Eater has its roots in their childhoods. Amy moment, the beginning of our story.
Hall, Visitor Experience Trainee, will
look at Wordsworth’s writings on his Dove Cottage, free
childhood experiences and discuss the
reasons why they were so important to
him in later life.
Dove Cottage, £7
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Poetry Readings
This Place I Know on my Tongue, Darbishire garners a
Wednesday 17 October, 7.30 – 9.00pm past childhood heady with scent and
colour, lost lives, rivers and mountains.
This evening we are delighted to host
She presents a meditative journey
a launch for This Place I Know, a brand
from Cumbria to Mallerstang Moors
new collection of contemporary poetry
to Connemara and the shops of Milan,
by some of Cumbria’s finest modern
like striations caught in time, deftly
poets writing in response to the
unravelling them before your eyes.
variety and wonder of the Cumbrian
landscape. Published by Handstand Jerwood Centre, free
Press, established names such as Chris
Pilling, Patricia Pogson, Neil Curry
and M. R. Peacocke are joined by a Poets-in-Residence
new generation of poets including December, February, March; TBC
Polly Atkin, Jacob Polley, Helen Mort
We are delighted to be able to invite
and Emma McGordon, bringing fresh
three contemporary poets to spend a
forms and insights into the people and
month each in Grasmere this season in
places around us. Grevel Lindop will
a new poet-in-residence programme.
give an introduction and editors Kim
Each one will give a reading of their
Moore and Kerry Darbishire will read
own work, and tell us more about what
some of their favourites before we
being a poet-in-residence involves,
raise a glass of wine in celebration.
in a relaxed evening poetry reading
Jerwood Centre, free during their time here. Dates and
exact arrangements will be announced
closer to the time – do keep an eye on
Indigo Dreams: Geraldine Green & our website.
Kerry Darbishire
Jerwood Centre, free
Wednesday 21 November,
7.30 – 9.00pm
We welcome Cumbrian-based poets The Poetry Business Writing School
Geraldine Green and Kerry Darbishire Sunday 10 March, 2.00 – 4.00pm
to take you on a journey of seasons,
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to
sounds and tastes from their new
hear twelve contemporary poets in just
collections published this year by
ninety minutes. The Writing School is a
Indigo Dreams. In Passing Through,
highly structured, advanced course for
Green weaves together strands of
more established poets supported by
autobiography, landscape and inward
the Arts Council. Each participant of
journeying – writing that interprets
the 2017 – 18 school will read for five
modern pastoral, elemental and
minutes, giving a unique and enjoyable
contemporary in all its facets with
snapshot of current contemporary
sensuality and richness, poems that
poetry.
glimpse her part of this beautiful
vulnerable planet. In Distance Sweet Jerwood Centre, free
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For Children and Families
Sticks, stones, leaves and cones: Creative Writing and Crafts
Eco Art 11.30am – 1.00pm
Tuesday 23 October, 2.00 – 4.00pm
Drop in to learn more about William
Come and join us in Dove Cottage Wordsworth’s life and poems by taking
gardens and in the surrounding part in fun craft and creative writing
countryside to make some ephemeral activities. Activities for children 3+.
art. We’ll take a journey in the
outdoors and look for natural materials Brockhole Visitor Centre, free
that we can turn into art. We’ll hear
and say and leave some poetry along
the way. Activities for children age 3+. Twilight Tales in Dove Cottage
Thursday 25 October, 4.00 – 5.30pm
Foyle Room, free with admission
(children go free with adult entry to When the wind whistles through the
Dove Cottage) shutters and the candles flicker on a
dark autumn night, Dove Cottage can
be an eerie place to be. Join us after
Wordsworth Wednesday at Brockhole dark this pre-Halloween night to find
Wednesday 24 October, out more about the spooky stories and
10.30am – 1.00pm hidden histories of the house and what
it was like to live here over 200 years
Our Education team are taking their ago without modern comforts. There
exciting and informative workshops to will be Grasmere Gingerbread and
Brockhole, the Lake District National hot chocolate to enjoy, as well as the
Park Visitor Centre, every Wednesday opportunity to dress up in Georgian
in the school holidays: clothes. For children age 3+.
Foyle Room, free with admission
Rucksack of Rhymes (children go free with adult entry to
10.30 – 11.30am Dove Cottage)
In Rucksack of Rhymes we explore
a short poem by Wordsworth, and a If you can’t get to Dove Cottage
theme such as nature or wildlife, with or Brockhole, you can catch us at
a rucksack full of toys and games for various Cumbrian libraries on Mondays
children aged 6 months to 5 years to and Fridays in the school holidays.
play with. We sing songs and rhymes Contact us or your local library to find
and tell stories for 30 minutes, then out when.
play for another 30 minutes.
For more information or to make a
booking, please email education@
wordsworth.org.uk
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Regular Gatherings
Grasmere History Group Dove Cottage Poets Discover Poetry
Tuesdays 2 October, 6 November, Thursdays 4 October, 1 November, Thursdays 18 October, 15 November,
4 December, 5 February, 5 March; 6 December, 7 February, 7 March; 13 December, 21 February, 21 March;
7.30 – 9.00pm 2.30 – 4.30pm 7.30 – 9.00pm
Grasmere History Group is a group Dove Cottage Poets is an informal Do you like reading poetry, but never
of local people who meet monthly to poetry writing group that meets at the find the time? Would you like to read
discuss matters of local history. It is Wordsworth Trust on a monthly basis. more but don’t know where to start?
a very friendly, informal gathering at Anyone who wishes to develop their Would you like to talk about poetry
which we share our interests and ask poetry, or just enjoy shared reading with a friendly, open group? Join us in
questions of others who might know and writing, whatever stage you are Dove Cottage for our monthly poetry
the answers we seek. We have a wide at, is very welcome to come and join reading group, where we’ll read and
range of interests and in recent years us. We meet, with an awareness of talk about a selection of classic and
we have produced exhibitions about Wordsworth’s heritage, to continue contemporary poems chosen to reflect
Grasmere in the First World War and the tradition of creating poetry in the changing seasons.
the early years of tourism in the Lake Town End. Each month we either have These relaxed, informal sessions will
District. a member-led session on a particular be led by Grasmere poet Polly Atkin
theme or technique, or we bring new and both seasoned poetry lovers and
New members from near or far are poems that we have discovered and those new to reading or talking about a
very welcome and we are always enjoyed to share with each other. We poem are welcome. There are no right
looking to meet more people with also read and discuss new poems and wrong answers, or ways to think.
fascinating stories to tell about written by members of the group, so We will be learning from each other as
Grasmere and the Lake District. We do bring extra copies of something much as from the poems.
meet on the first Tuesday of each you are working on if you would like
month in the Jerwood Centre at to. Tea and coffee will be available. Each month three poems will be
7.30pm. A speaker or discussion topic available ahead of time so that you can
is usually arranged in advance; for For further information about a spend as much (or as little) time with
more information about a specific date specific date or to be added to the them as you like: take them for a walk
please get in touch with us. group email list, please contact us or out for dinner; chew them over by
on 015394 35544 or enquiries@ your own fireside. We will also feature
Jerwood Centre, free wordsworth.org.uk a wildcard poem, chosen to reflect
current events, which will be given out
Foyle Room, free on the day.
Dove Cottage, free
Grasmere
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Events Diary Reimagining Wordsworth
October JANUARY
2 Grasmere History Group p16 5 An Afternoon with Grasmere
History Group p5 Sensory Garden, which will be the first
3 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8
part of the project to be completed.
4 Dove Cottage Poets p16 16 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8
6 ‘Touchwood’ Trees: Literary Relics 19 New Views for a New Year p6
‘Reimagining Wordsworth’ will
and Memory Culture p4 celebrate Wordsworth’s creativity
17 This Place I Know p13 FEBRUARY In March we reported the wonderful and relevance in fresh and exciting
18 Discover Poetry p17 5 Grasmere History Group p16 news that the Heritage Lottery Fund ways. Further updates will follow,
7 Dove Cottage Poets p16 has awarded £4.1 million towards our and there is more information
23 Sticks, stones, leaves and cones:
9 New Views for a New Year p6
‘Reimagining Wordsworth’ project, on the project website, www.
Eco Art p15
completing a major £6.3 million reimaginingwordsworth.org.uk.
24 Wordsworth Wednesday at Brockhole p15 13 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8
fundraising drive that started in 2015.
25 Twilight Tales p15 16 Iain Bain: A Celebration p6
Thank you again to everyone who
31 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8 21 Discover Poetry p17 Our designers and architects are supported our fundraising appeal
20 Wordsworth’s ‘Yew-Trees’ Revisited p6 now back on site, producing detailed for turning these long-held plans into
November drawings ahead of advertising for a a reality.
1 Dove Cottage Poets p16 MARCH contractor. We are also working with
6 Grasmere History Group p16 5 Grasmere History Group p16 volunteers in Grasmere to create the
15 Discover Poetry p17 7 Dove Cottage Poets p16
17 Diary of a Bipolar Explorer p4 9 New Views for a New Year p6
Website
17 Dora Wordsworth, Artist p4 10 The Poetry Business Writing School p13
21 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8 13 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8
21 Indigo Dreams: Geraldine Green & 16 A Curator’s View p6
Kerry Darbishire p13 21 Discover Poetry p16
Regular visitors to our website
DECEMBER may have noticed that it has been
1 ‘Active Climbers of the Hills’: Women redesigned. The address is the same
in the Mountains, 1787 – 1829 p5 (www.wordsworth.org.uk) but the
4 The Third Lake Poet: rediscovering
site itself has been given a more fresh
Robert Southey p10 and clean look. The new site includes
links to our YouTube channel and the
4 ‘Oh! Just, subtle, and mighty opium!’ p10
‘Wordsworth and Romanticism’ blog,
4 Grasmere History Group p16
and a new ‘Treasures’ page featuring
6 Dove Cottage Poets p16 highlights from our collection. You can
11 The Vision of William Wordsworth p11 find out about events here too.
11 Wordsworth and Childhood p11
13 Discover Poetry p17
18 Romantics and the ‘Orient’ p11
19 Further Explorations of The Prelude p8
Thank you to our funding partners.
20 Grasmere Residents’ Afternoon in
Dove Cottage p11
18 The Wordsworth Trust www.wordsworth.org.uk 19The Wordsworth Trust Pay & display car parking and cycle
Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria, bars available. Partial access to Dove
LA22 9SH Cottage for disabled visitors. Large
015394 35544 print guides are available in the
enquiries@wordsworth.org.uk museum. Shop and tea/coffee facilities
www.wordsworth.org.uk located on site.
Access
Full access is available for wheelchair
users to the Wordsworth Museum and
Jerwood Centre, and level access to
the ground floor of Dove Cottage only.
All Dove Cottage events take place on
the ground floor.
Where we are
South of Grasmere village, on the A591
Kendal to Keswick road.
Buses operate from Windermere
and Keswick to Grasmere regularly
throughout the year.
For more information or to book
please visit our website
www.wordsworth.org.uk or call 015394
35544. We advise that you pre-book
all events, even the free ones.
Become a Friend of the Wordsworth
Open daily 1 March – 31 October Trust and be the first to know what’s
9.30am – 5.30pm. Last admission to on. To find out more about priority
Dove Cottage is at 5pm. booking and other benefits of being a
Friend visit our website or call us on
1 November – 23 December 015394 35544.
10am – 4.30pm. Last admission to
Dove Cottage is at 4pm. Please note that a minimum number
of participants is required for some
Closed on Tuesdays during December. events. Some events may be subject to
Adult: £8.95 / Student: £7.25 change or cancellation.
Child: free
The Wordsworth Trust reserves the
Due to the Reimagining Wordsworth right to cancel events at short notice
project, scheduled to commence in and to change admission charges
2019, opening times will vary and advertised in this programme.
admission prices reduce.
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