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Dorothy "Dora" Wordsworth [1] (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" [2] 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.
Jun 3, 2020 · “Of this be assured, that I shall never go from home for any time again, without a female companion”, wrote Wordsworth to his daughter Dora in 1837 – (he was in Florence at the time, while on a tour of Italy). Throughout his adult life Wordsworth relied heavily on the company and affection of women.
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 for the most part accepted the outlook of Rydal Mount, as her actions and comments make clear. In a letter to Susan Wordsworth (27 July ?1843), Dora describes a visit to the Mount by a Dr. Howe and his wife from Boston.
In this riveting and absorbing book, Katie Waldegrave examines the intertwining lives of Dora Wordsworth, daughter of the great Romantic poet, William, and Sara Coleridge, daughter of his charismatic but unstable friend, the poet and critic Samuel Taylor, and shows the disastrous effects of the two powerful male egos on their respective daughters.
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"Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge were lifelong friends. They were also the daughters of poetic geniuses and best friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ushered in Romanticism at the turn of the 19th century.