Wordsworth & Education contains 20 chapters and 33 pages of notes.  The book, about of William Wordsworth's ideas about education and schooling (which he considered by no means the same thing), has not been superseded and remains the only attempt of which I am aware to convey what the title implies.


The picture shown 'The School Mistress' Francis Wheatley 1791

• The childhood, teenage and university education of William Wordsworth
• The schooling and subsequent careers of John Wordsworth, Dora Wordsworth and William 'Willy' Wordsworth.
• Wordsworth's fostering of Basil Montagu jr with an account of Basil's short life.
• Wordsworth's essays On The Convention of Cintra and The Reply to Mathetes.
• Wordsworth's relationship with the Revd Andrew Bell, educational pioneer.
• Wordsworth's reaction to the political issues of his time.
• The women whose influence was so important a part of Wordsworth's domestic life: his wife, Mary Wordsworth, his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister-in-law Sara Hutchinson, his daughter, Dora Wordsworth and his friend in old age, Isabella  Fenwick.
• Edward Quillinan and his relationship with Dora Wordsworth 
• The political appeal of  'Jubilee' in  Book Nine of  'The Excursion'