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Dorothy "Dora" Wordsworth (16 August 1804 – 9 July 1847) was the daughter of poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and his wife Mary Hutchinson. Her infancy inspired William Wordsworth to write "Address to My Infant Daughter" in her honour.
Dorothy " Dora " Wordsworth (16 August 1804 – 9 July 1847) was the daughter of poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and his wife Mary Hutchinson. Her infancy inspired William Wordsworth to write "Address to My Infant Daughter" in her honour.
Sep 12, 2013 · Dora Wordsworth, circa 1825. Image: Getty. About halfway through The Poets’ Daughters, the book takes a step back from its gripping narrative to recount the historical and literary significance of 1834 and 1835.
Sep 6, 2014 · The Poets’ Daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, by Katie Waldegrave. When not writing some of the greatest poetry and criticism in the English language, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were having families. (Well, Wordsworth was: Coleridge was mainly avoiding his.)
Nov 13, 2017 · Dora Wordsworth stepped into the role of chief amanuensis as Dorothy’s health failed, as did William’s eyesight, many years later at Rydal Mount. ‘I hold the pen for father’, she writes in a letter, October 1833.
Dora Wordsworth was very likely thinking of her aunt during her visit to the Wye Valley and Tintern Abbey—and thinking that her father's exhortations were difficult to follow. In her letter to Miss Fenwick, Dora goes on to say that she and her party traveled to the abbey itself in a hailstorm, but then left their coach in the sunshine.
Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge were lifelong friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the Romantic Age. Living in the shadow of their fathers’ extraordinary fame brought Sara and Dora great privilege, but at a terrible cost.
