Dorothy Wordsworth | |
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 Drawing of Dorothy Wordsworth in middle age | |
| Born | Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth 25 December 1771 Cockermouth, Cumberland, England |
| Died | 25 January 1855 (aged 83) near Ambleside, Westmorland, England |
| Occupation(s) | Author, poet, and diarist |
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Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. Dorothy Wordsworth had no ambitions to be a public author, yet she left behind numerous letters, diary entries, topographical descriptions, poems, and other writings.