{"product_id":"9781806491643","title":"Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit : A Life of Dorothy Wellesley","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jane Wellesley\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20 August 2026 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 448 pages, 2x 8-page plate sections\u003cbr\u003e196 x 128 | 420g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Wellesley was a poet, traveller, heiress and rebel. When she became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, it wrecked her marriage to the future Duke of Wellington. Through Vita, Dorothy met Virginia Woolf and gained a unique view of the iconic and intensely self-absorbed Bloomsbury Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.B. Yeats hailed her as one of the most talented poets of her generation. She was his intimate friend in his final years and his muse. Yet despite being a writer, editor and champion of poetry throughout her life, she ranks highly among the most overlooked women poets of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis intimate biography draws on unpublished material, including private Wellesley family papers and hitherto unknown source material, to create a riveting story of love, secret friendships and betrayal. Unconventional, reckless and often vulnerable, Dorothy Wellesley was a woman ahead of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49447873609987,"sku":"9781806491643","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9781806491643","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}