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Dorothy Wordsworth

Born

in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England

December 25, 1771

Died

January 25, 1855

Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Thomas Pennant, John Stoddart, William Gilpin ...more

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Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth was an English poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy Wordsworth did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise a series of letters, diary entries, and short stories.

She also edited much of William’s work. She was one of two people he attributed to the development of his intellect. Without her he would never have achieved such poetic heights. ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 1,445 ratings · 196 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1971 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home at Grasmere: The Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and the Poems of William Wordsworth by Dorothy Wordsworth, Colette Clark (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1960 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth, John Campbell Shairp (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1874 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth by Dorothy Wordsworth, Helen Darbishire (Editor), Lynton Lamb (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1897 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dorothy Wordsworth's Illustrated Lakeland Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth, Rachel Trickett (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth 3.40 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dorothy Wordsworth: An Anthology 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection by Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Volume I by Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest de Sélincourt (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1941 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Dorothy Wordsworth (?)

“The days are cold, the nights are long,
The North wind sings a doleful song;
Then hush again upon my breast;
All merry things are now at rest,
Save thee, my pretty love!”
― Dorothy Wordsworth

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“I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing...”
― Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals

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“A laugh was on every face when William said we were come to see the Trossachs, no doubt they thought we had better have stayed at our own homes. William endeavoured to make it appear not so very foolish, by informing them that it was a place much celebrated in England, though perhaps little thought of by them, and that we only differed from many of our countrymen in having come the wrong way in consequence of an erroneous direction.”
― Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803

tags: 1803, the-trossachs, tourism, william-worsworth

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