Wordsworth, two children, and at that time one servant. When Thomas De Quincey met William there in 1807, he also made the acquaintance with Dorothy. The marriage was happy but Dorothy was too hysterical to attend the wedding. William married in 1802 married Mary Hutchinson, who was Dorothy's best friend. In 1799 Dortohy settled with her brother in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, in the Lake District. William's poems, such as 'Lines' and 'To My Sister', doesn't give any hint of this, but express his happiness, when she accompanied him on the walking thips: "My sister! ('tis a wish of mine) / Now that our morning meal is done, / Make haste, your morning task resign / Come forth and feel the sun." (from 'To My Sister') Some biographer have speculated about their strong attraction to each other, considering it sexual. With his brother Dorothy played occasionally a curious game - they lay down next to each other outdoors, pretending to be in their graves. "Tho we were three persons," Coleridge wrote, "it was but one soul." Sarah Coleridge's role in this artistic circle was not central - he was considered dull, but she raised the children and took care of her opium-addicted husband, who eventually abandoned his patient wife. Her thoughs and writings were an important source of stimulation for Coleridge and William. In Alfoxden she started her first journal, and then kept several other journals of travels and expeditions. At Alfoxden, Somerset, she became friends with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and traveled with her and William in Germany (1798-99). She began writing in about 1795 when she shared with her brother a house in Dorset. After her parents died she spent her childhood with various relatives. She was content to be ignorant of many things but what she knew and had really mastered lay where it could not be disturbed - in the temple of her own most fervid heart." (Thomas De Quincey in Reminiscenes of the Lake Poets, 1961)ĭorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. Her knowledge of literature was irregular, and thoroughly unsystematic. ![]() But, on the other hand, she was a person of very remarkable endowments intellectually. ![]() ![]() "She did not cultivate the graces which preside over the person and its carriage. the most distinguished of English writers who never wrote a line for the general public." de Sélincourt, who published her journals in 1933, has called her "probably. She published nothing during her lifetime, and spent the last twenty-five years struggling against physical and mental illness. Several of Dorothy Wordsworth's own poems or notes in her journal were included in various editions of her brother's poetical works. English prose writer, the younger sister of poet William Wordsworth, famous for her diaries and 'recollections'.
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