Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their lives. Wordsworth had no ambitions to be an author, and her writings consist only of series of letters, diary entries, poems and short stories.
Life
She was born on Christmas Day in Cockermouth, Cumberland in 1771. Despite the early deaths of both her parents, Dorothy, William and their three siblings had a happy childhood. When in 1783, their father died and the children were sent to live with various relatives, Wordsworth was sent alone to live with her aunt, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax, West Yorkshire. After she was able to be reunited with William, firstly at Racedown Lodge in Dorset in 1795 and afterwards (1797/98) at Alfoxden House in Somerset, they became inseparable companions. The pair lived in poverty at first, and would often beg for cast-off clothes from their friends.
On Christmas Day, fans will be treated to the long-awaited Gavin & Stacey reunion ... That doesn’t work for everyone ... When Wordsworth adapted a passage from his sister Dorothy’s journal and turned it into his daffodils poem, was that collaboration? ... .
Dove Cottage, home of the poet WilliamWordsworth and his sister, Dorothy ... The Wordsworth grave plot is where I remember it, but I examine the memorials for William and Dorothy and John with a new layer of complicated understanding.
It was a windy day in the Lake District more than 220 years ago when Dorothy Wordsworth and her poet brother William walked along the shores of Ullswater ... The lake was rough,” Dorothy wrote in her ...
The songs are all connected to flowers and gardens, and many also reference birdsong, which fits her perfectly ...Despite being called Huit Chansons de Fleurs, it is in English, set to words by Dickinson, Wordsworth, Dorothy Parker and Gordon himself.
Eliding three books into one, she explores her own terrifying mental collapse and tentative recovery, the lives of Romantic poetWilliamWordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their confrère Samuel Taylor...
“Can you imagine … the excess of my feelings,” Robert wrote home, “in observing … the imprint of his much-loved name.” Dorothy Wordsworth, coming across initials carved into rocks by her brother ...
Dove Cottage, where the poet moved with his sister Dorothy in 1799, has been recreated as it would have been over 200 years ago; Wordsworth’s suitcase on the washstand and one room lined with newspaper to keep out the cold.
After days of media speculation about a “snow bomb” or possibly worse, it is still not entirely clear about when, where or even if any snow will fall over the UK ... As the poet Dorothy Wordsworth wrote ... Related articles ... .
From the autumn of 1795 to July 1797 William and Dorothy Wordsworth took up their abode at Racedown, in Dorsetshire ... Dorothy Wordsworth is the last (alphabetically, and perhaps in composition) and the only Romantic-era writer.
After all, being alone and being lonely are quite different things ...Records show that when Wordsworth “wandered lonely as a cloud”, his sister Dorothy was strolling companionably beside him, and she liked the daffodils too ... ....
Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, John Keats’s letters, the diaries of a serious Victorian teenager – they all held a voyeuristic, vicarious thrill, the sense of finally being in the room with ...
Dorothy Wordsworth, William’s sister, once described the walk as ‘exquisite’ ... Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth’s sister, once described the walk around Brothers Water (pictured) as ‘exquisite’.
Let it be known here that it was Dorothy Wordsworth, William’s sister, who turned his attention to them. (We know that from their diaries.) So in Women’s History month let’s think of them as Dorothy Wordsworth’s.
