Wordsworth was not the only literary celebrity that Victorian tourists would have associated with the Lake District, but he was widely regarded as the region’s pre-eminent cultural authority. Quoted in guidebooks, his words were credited with casting an ‘imperishable lustre’ on the local scenery.1 Consulted by tourists, his works were assiduously mapped over the terrain. By the 1850s, this … Continue reading Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’