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Some of Us Just Fall

On Nature and Not Getting Better

By: Polly Atkin

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Some of Us Just Fall

On Nature and Not Getting Better

By: Polly Atkin

It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form." -Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean "Defiant and dazzling" -Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year "Essential reading" -Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning "Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable..." After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her- all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, and on top of it all, not being believed by the very people who were meant to listen. Some of Us Just Fall combines memoir, pathography and nature writing to trace a journey through illness- a journey which led Atkins to her cottage in England's Lake District, where every day she turns to the lakes and land that inspire poets old and new to help manage, and purportedly cure, her chronic illness. Join her as she delves into shimmering waters, selkie dreams, and the history of her two genetic conditions to uncover and learn from how they were managed (or not) in times gone by. Beautiful and deeply personal, Some of Us Just Fall is essential reading on the cost of medical misogyny and gaslighting, the illusion of 'the nature cure', and the dangers of ableism both systematic and internalized. This is not a book about getting better. This is a book about living better with illness.

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1961884003

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Recovering Dorothy

The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By: Polly Atkin

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Recovering Dorothy

The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By: Polly Atkin

The first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth’s later life and work and the impact of her disability – allowing her to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother’s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story.

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232

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Saraband

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1915089654

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9781915089656

Recovering Dorothy

The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By: Polly Atkin

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Images of the Other

A Guide to Microform Manuscripts on Indian-White Relations

By: Polly Grimshaw

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Images of the Other

A Guide to Microform Manuscripts on Indian-White Relations

By: Polly Grimshaw

From their earliest contacts with the native inhabitants, European travelers to the New World wrote letters, journals, and official reports about the Indians they met or heard about. Grimshaw has compiled information on 70 collections of these documents now available in microform, evaluating each

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University of Illinois Press

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0252017595

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9780252017599

The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie

Reports from a Riotous Life [16pt Large Print Edition]

By: Polly Gillespie

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Reports from a Riotous Life [16pt Large Print Edition]

By: Polly Gillespie

With a great deal of humour and honesty Polly Gillespie walks the reader through some of the ups and downs of life, with advice, warnings, and stories simply involving the awkwardness of being Polly. (She says that at the very least these will make you feel normal.)

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Some of Us Just Fall

Some of Us Just Fall

Recovering Dorothy

Recovering Dorothy

Recovering Dorothy

Recovering Dorothy

Images of the Other

Images of the Other

The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie

The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie

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