Mary Wordsworth

WW was married on 4 October 1802 to Mary Hutchinson , whom he had known from childhood. The marriage was very happy, apart from the intense sorrow brought by the early deaths of two of...

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

It seems that the Wordsworth family (William , Mary , and Dorothy ) were more troubled about the marriage than about the sexual relation that preceded it. De Quincey evidently forgave Dorothy Wordsworth (who...

Joanna Baillie (a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF , and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. At first meeting, Fletcher did not...

During summers at Penrith DW met and became a friend of Mary Hutchinson , who later became William's wife. A more intimate friend, with whom she had dreamed of escaping one day from...

In Nottingham MH met L. E. L. and perhaps Elizabeth Fry . She was visited by Mary and Dora Wordsworth (wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the...

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

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...