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"Her favorite Playmate": Pleasure and Interdependence in Dorothy Wordsworth's "Mary Jones and her Pet-lamb"
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 37, 2009
- pp. 33-60
- 10.1353/chl.0.0808
- Article
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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.