William Wordsworth

DW left Grasmere with her brother William to travel to France to meet with his former lover Annette Vallon (now calling herself Williams) and her daughter, Caroline.

DW 's life was radically changed when her brother William married Mary Hutchinson .

DW , with William and Mary Wordsworth and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere.

DW kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William .

DW is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both...

Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard , William , John , and Christopher . Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank...

From early childhood Dorothy had been especially close to her brother William . When in 1794 she was at last able to live with him, the reunion was emotional and they both felt that their...

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .

The European Magazine printed a poem On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress: the first publication of the schoolboy William Wordsworth .

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

Two of these poems became well-known on account of musical settings. The volume as a whole established HMW 's reputation and her allegiance to sensibility. It was no doubt a factor in producing Wordsworth 's...

DW 's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee...

JW visited Harriet Martineau at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on Wordsworth , whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable.

This first poetic attempt was well received.H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...

In addition to reviews, RMW contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley who had died...