ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the extraordinary changes and developments in Wordsworthian tourism in the second half of the nineteenth century. The eighth edition of Atkinson's Hand-book describes Wordsworth's grave as a principal tourist attraction of Grasmere: It is not for its incomparable beauty alone that, henceforward, the reflective tourist will visit the value of Grasmere. In the advertisements attached to this Hand-book is a set of souvenir prints: Lake Scenery: A Series of Twenty-five Views of the Most Interesting Spots in the Lake District, which includes an image of Wordsworth's Grave. This could be purchased at most of the print-sellers in Westmorland and Cumberland. John Brandard's lithograph, Wordsworth's Grave, Grasmere Churchyard was one of these souvenir images sold in the Lake District. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, numerous accounts, descriptions and images of Wordsworth's burial place by visitors would be published in diaries, letters, travelogues, poems, drawings, engravings and photographs.
