Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...

Literature is supposed to be a serious, solitary profession. Then why were William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their best friend Samuel Coleridge having so much fun together in the English Lake ...

Little is known about Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), that famous “Victorian Virgin” who never wrote a line of prose for the general public. Biographers have speculated widely about her private life, ...

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"It being a beautiful morning," wrote Dorothy Wordsworth on April 23, 1802, "we set off at 11 o'clock intending to stay out of doors all the morning. We went towards Ryedale…The sun shone and we were ...

FIRST, FROST at midnight – Moon, Venus and Jupiter named in their places. Ice, like a cold key, turning its lock on the lake; nervous stars trapped there. Darkness, a hand poised over the chord of the ...

I hope that book-shop browsers will not be put off this intelligent and intriguing and properly strange biography by the title, or by the opening page. The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth starts: 'She ...

William Wordsworth based several of his poems on descriptions of people and places in his sister's journal.Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of the poet William Wordsworth, kept this journal at Dove Cottage ...