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Described by her aunt and namesake Dorothy Wordsworth as "at times very beautiful", Dora Wordsworth was devoted to her father and a significant influence on his poetry. Their relationship was particularly close, with Coleridge's son Hartley describing how she "almost adored" him in an 1830 letter.
116:(1770–1850) and his wife Mary Hutchinson. Her infancy inspired William Wordsworth to write "Address to My Infant Daughter" in her honour. As an adult, she was further immortalised by him in the 1828 poem "The Triad", along with Edith Southey and 179: 174:. After her death, her distraught father (who had already lost two of his children to illness), planted hundreds of daffodils in her memory in a field (later named Dora's Field) beside St. Mary's Church, 155:
However, Wordsworth also had literary abilities of her own, publishing a travel journal. Sara Coleridge complained after Wordsworth's death that her father's demands on her "frustrated a real talent".
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Throughout her life, Wordsworth formed intense romantic attachments to both men and women, the most significant being her friendship with
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Ernest de Selincourt (ed.). "Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, letter dated 19 December 1809".
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Wordsworth died of tuberculosis at her parents' home, and is buried in the graveyard of
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St Oswald's Church, Grasmere
Cumbria
Edward Quillinan
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
Sara Coleridge
Lake Poets
Edward Quillinan
Isabella Fenwick
Maria Jane Jewsbury
Maria Kinnaird
Richard "Conversation" Sharp
Thomas Drummond
St Oswald's Church, Grasmere
Cumbria
Hartley Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rydal
National Trust
"Dorothy Wordsworth, 16 Sep 1804"
Wordsworth, William
"Address to my infant daughter, Dora"
"The Perfect Match: Wordsworth's 'The Triad' and Coleridge's 'Garden of Boccacio' in Context"
the original


"Introduction to the Passionate Sisterhood"
The Autobiography of Henry Taylor, Volume 1
Conversation Sharp: The Biography of a London Gentleman, Richard Sharp (1759–1835), in Letters, Prose and Verse
"Poets' Graves, William Wordsworth"

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