Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication. If, according to legend, and as depicted in the 2000 film Pandaemonium, William’s “I wandered lonely as a cow” was redrafted as “cloud” at Dorothy’s behest, hers may have been the defining spirit of Wordsworth. Your editorial refers to Lucy Newlyn’s argument that Dorothy and William were “equal partners in writing”. I wonder if the gown had been Dorothy’s rather than Mary Wordsworth’s, who seems to have dressed in a rather more sombre fashion. She is remembered for her delightful diaries, which were not published until years after her death. The English poet Robert Southey mentions the “good lady’s bookbinding propensities”. Dorothy Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth lies buried in one of the most beautiful churchyards in England, at Grasmere in the Lake District, with her brother William, his wife Mary, and other members of the family. Several of Dorothy Wordsworth's own poems or notes in her journal were included in various editions of her brother's poetical works. It is said to be made from a piece of one of Mrs Wordsworth’s old gowns. Dorothy Wordsworth 1771-1855 English prose writer, the younger sister of poet William Wordsworth, famous for her diaries and 'recollections'.
It is bound in a beautiful green fabric, with white horses, like the one at Uffington, dancing about. Many of her brother's poems were suggested by scenes and. Wordsworth was the only sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and his lifelong and sympathetic companion, and endowed in no small degree with the same love of and insight into nature as is evidenced by her Journals. In the British Library there is a copy of AS Cottle’s The Edda of Saemund (1797). Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 - 25 January 1855) was an English poet, story writer, and diarist. What about on TV, in Grasmere? That really would be something! In his introduction to Vital Stream, Richard Holmes quite rightly argues that Newlyn’s extraordinary sonnets should be read out on the radio.
In Vital Stream, Newlyn gives us 135 sonnets covering the lives of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy through the spring and summer of 1802. In the earlier book, Newlyn invokes Marcel Mauss’s observations “that bonds are created through gifts, in a mutual interdependence of giver and receiver”. I would recommend two books by the poet-scholar Lucy Newlyn, who was mentioned in your editorial: William & Dorothy Wordsworth: “All in Each Other” (2013) and Vital Stream (2019) they are more than perfect Christmas presents. She remains an inspiration for overlooked women everywhere. Standing alongside Mayo, albeit more modestly and temporarily, Dorothy’s portrait is a reminder of her talent and her values, which resonate so strongly in our own times. Our town is not only known for its associations with Dorothy’s brother William but also with the scientist John Dalton, the mutineer Fletcher Christian and a colonial viceroy of India, Lord Mayo, whose huge statue has dominated our Main Street since 1875 following his assassination.
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