Dorothy wordsworth series#
Dorothy did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise only of a series of letters, diary entries and short stories. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. In her later years, she struggled with addictions to opium and laudanum, and her mental health deteriorated. Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. From this time forth her life ran on lines closely parallel to those of her great brother, whose companion she continued to be till his death. In 1794 they determined that it would be best to combine their small capitals and that Dorothy should keep house for the poet. Wordsworth also wrote several children’s stories. Dorothy Wordsworth, an English writer, sister to the poet William Wordsworth. Most of her writing explores the natural world.Īlthough Wordsworth did not publish her work, many of her journals, travelogues, and poems have been posthumously collected and published, including her four-volume Alfoxden journal, which she kept from May 1799 to December 1802, and her journals from 1824 to 1835, which include a travelogue and notes on life at Rydal Mount, where she lived with William and his family beginning in 1813. Thereafter Dorothy Wordsworth made her home with the couple.Īn avid naturalist, Wordsworth enjoyed daily nature walks with her brother, and images from the notes she took of these walks often recur in her brother’s poems. She remained particularly close to her brother, the poet William Wordsworth, and the siblings lived together in Dorset and Alfoxden before William married her best friend, Mary Hutchinson, in 1802. Starting in 1788, Wordsworth lived with Cookson and his new wife, and helped to care for their children. She later moved to live with an uncle in Penrith, where she was tutored by yet another uncle, the Reverend William Cookson, who also tutored the sons of King George III. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William. Her diaries were a direct source of some of Wordsworth's best-known lines. Wordsworth changed schools, entering Miss Medlin’s school, where she first read Milton, Shakespeare, and Homer. Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet, and diarist. Dorothy Wordsworth ( Decem January 25 1855) was an English diarist, travel-writer and catalyst in the writing of her brother William Wordsworth 's poems. The journals she kept at Alfoxden, in 1798, where her brother and Coleridge were composing the Lyrical Ballads and at. When her father died in 1783, the family’s financial situation worsened and the children were sent to live with their uncles. Wordsworth's 'exquisite sister', as Coleridge described her, was not only the cherished companion of the two poets, but also a writer who possessed a geniune poetic imagination in her own right. In 1781 she enrolled in Hipperholme Boarding School. Her mother died when Wordsworth was six, and she moved to Halifax to live with her aunt.
Born in Cumberland, British Romantic poet and prose writer Dorothy Wordsworth was the third of five children.
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