"Her favorite Playmate": Pleasure and Interdependence in Dorothy Wordsworth's "Mary Jones and her Pet-lamb"

Abstract

Dorothy Wordsworth’s children’s story, “Mary Jones and her Pet-lamb,” adds a distinctive voice to early nineteenth-century conversations about children and their animal-others. Mary Jones’s relationship with the lamb highlights the non-appropriative tendencies of Wordsworth’s imagination as it creates a model of non-oppositional identity within an inclusive social world.