![]() ![]() Reynolds had brought with him a blue stone, which was used to touch William’s eyes. On September the 28th 1827, Sara Hutchinson, William’s resident sister-in-law, wrote to Edward Quillinan about a visit by Frederic Reynolds, editor of The Keepsake, to their house at Rydal Mount. It was around this time that the attacks became more frequent and more severe, and he started to wear a green eyeshade to alleviate the attacks. This encouraged William to go to London to publish his poetry, and then to travel to Switzerland. In 1820 the trachoma returned, and William feared he might, like his hero Milton, be going blind. ![]() His children had whooping cough at this time, and the combination of both sicknesses and the feelings of disinterest in poetry which perhaps resulted from the stress of the period, meant that Wordsworth’s writing ground to a halt. The symptoms were to return again on the 18th of December 1810, which forced him to return from Elleray to Allan Bank. He also suffered an attack in the summer of 1810 when he was travelling on his way to Coleorton. The first occurrence of an eye disease was in January 1805, when he suffered from an inflammation of the eyelids – probably a symptom of the eye infection trachoma – and his vision was impaired. Britain’s best places to see: Writers’ house museums.9 treasures from the lives of the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage.The 164-year-old secret letter uncovering the lives of Mrs Gaskell’s servants. ![]()
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