Dorothy Wordsworth, Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge, Caroline Bowles Southey, various authors
Dorothy Wordsworth
(1771-1855) was a Romantic poet and prose writer and the sister of one of the period’s
most famous poets, William Wordsworth. Dorothy was an avid naturalist and many
of her works explore themes of nature. Though she did not publish during her
lifetime, many of her journals and poems have been published posthumously. In
later years, she struggled with addictions to opium and laudanum, and William
acted as her main caretaker as her health deteriorated until his death in 1850.
She died five years later.View all by Dorothy Wordsworth, Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge, Caroline Bowles Southey, various authors