births
December 25, 1771
Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet (died 1855)
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth 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.