Sara Hutchinson

By April 1801 he was in love with Sara Hutchinson , whose sister Mary was next year to marry William Wordsworth.

Dorothy's journal makes it clear how intensely emotional this event was for her, without making it clear what exactly her feelings were. I slept a good deal of the night, and rose fresh and well...

Though DW had no children of her own, she was deeply involved with Mary in the births of her five children and the deaths of two of them in childhood. When Catherine was newborn, in...

DW 's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury and Mary Ann Lamb . She was very close to Coleridge , who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June...

She was left permanently physically weakened, probably by the condition known as silent stone. Another attack, in January 1833, again aroused fears for her life, but she seems to have made a...

The lapse of her mind into a kind of dementia, which may perhaps have been Alzheimer's disease, seems to have happened at the time of Sara Hutchinson 's death on 23 June 1835, a time...

STC is best known as a Romantic poet, but he also produced verse-drama, plays, literary criticism, translations, philosophical, and autobiographical works. He edited The Watchman, a radical Christian periodical, for a while, and in...

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...