Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Wordsworth did not set out to be an author, and her writings consist only of a series of letters, diary entries, poems and short stories.

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    Will no one tell me what she sings?—
    Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
    For old, unhappy, far-off things,
    And battles long ago:
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)