Dorothy Wordsworth

About

English author, journal writer, and poet best known as the sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is mentioned in Wordsworth's renowned "Tintern Abbey" poem.

Before Fame

She and her siblings were destitute after their mother's death; they often had to beg friends for clothes.

Trivia

She never desired fame for her writing, never married, and lived the last decades of her life as an invalid.

Family Life

Her mother died when she was young, and she lived for a time with Elizabeth Threlkeld, her aunt. Later, she was reunited with her beloved brother William.

Associated With

She wrote about author Samuel Taylor Coleridge in her Grasmere Journal.