University of Manchester4y
Climbing with Dorothy: the Wordsworth who put mountaineering on the map
But that didn’t stop Dorothy Wordsworth and her friend Mary Barker ascending the mountain in October 1818. In an age when women walking by themselves – let alone in the remote uplands – was frowned ...
The Daily Telegraph25d
This historic village in the Lakes is still ‘the loveliest spot that man hath ever found’
In December 1799, the Cumbrian-born Wordsworth siblings, William and Dorothy, returned to the area when the poet spotted the house was available for rent while on a walking tour. Welcomed home ...
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Famous Cumbrians portrayed in films by Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson and many more
David Warner and Felicity Kendall - William and Dorothy Wordsworth William and Dorothy is a 1978 British TV movie starring David Warner and Felicity Kendall and directed by Ken Russell.
The Financial Times24d
House museums #100: Robert Owen, New Lanark, Scotland
Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1803, William and Dorothy Wordsworth went on a grand tour of Scotland in the company of their friend Samuel ...
Queen Mary University of London5y
The Letters of Henry Crabb Robinson, Wordsworth Library, Grasmere (2013), transcribed and edited by Timothy Whelan
His friendship with Mary Wordsworth (1770-1859), whom he first met in 1812, spanned more than 45 years. Initially, William and Dorothy were his primary correspondents, but after Dorothy’s mental ...