I lived from 1771-1855. I was from England, and am in the English category.
I was influenced by poet William Wordsworth.
English prose writer, the younger sister of poet William Wordsworth, famous for her diaries and 'recollections'. Several of Dorothy Wordsworth's own poems or notes in her journal were included in various editions of her brother's poetical works. She published nothing during her lifetime, and spent the last twenty-five years struggling against physical and mental illness. E. de Sélincourt, who published her journals in 1933, has called her "probably... the most distinguished of English writers who never wrote a line for the general public."
"She did not cultivate the graces which preside over the person and its carriage. But, on the other hand, she was a person of very remarkable endowments intellectually... Her knowledge of literature was irregular, and thoroughly unsystematic. She was content to be ignorant of many things; but what she knew and had really mastered lay where it could not be disturbed - in the temple of her own most fervid heart." (Thomas De Quincey in Reminiscenes of the Lake Poets, 1961)
Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. After her parents died she spent her childhood with various relatives. She began writing in about 1795 when she shared with her brother a house in Dorset. At Alfoxden, Somerset, she became friends with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and traveled with her and William in Germany (1798-99). In Alfoxden she started her first journal, and then kept several other journals of travels and expeditions. Her thoughs and writings were an important source of stimulation for Coleridge and William. "Tho we were three persons," Coleridge wrote, "it was but one soul." Sarah Coleridge's role in this artistic circle was not central - he was considered dull, but she raised the children and took care of her opium-addicted husband, who eventually abandoned his patient wife.
"She did not cultivate the graces which preside over the person and its carriage. But, on the other hand, she was a person of very remarkable endowments intellectually... Her knowledge of literature was irregular, and thoroughly unsystematic. She was content to be ignorant of many things; but what she knew and had really mastered lay where it could not be disturbed - in the temple of her own most fervid heart." (Thomas De Quincey in Reminiscenes of the Lake Poets, 1961)
Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. After her parents died she spent her childhood with various relatives. She began writing in about 1795 when she shared with her brother a house in Dorset. At Alfoxden, Somerset, she became friends with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and traveled with her and William in Germany (1798-99). In Alfoxden she started her first journal, and then kept several other journals of travels and expeditions. Her thoughs and writings were an important source of stimulation for Coleridge and William. "Tho we were three persons," Coleridge wrote, "it was but one soul." Sarah Coleridge's role in this artistic circle was not central - he was considered dull, but she raised the children and took care of her opium-addicted husband, who eventually abandoned his patient wife.
