“[October] 20th, Monday. …When we came home the fire was out. We ate our supper in the dark, and went to bed immediately. William was disturbed in the night by the rain coming in to his room, for it was a very rainy night. The ash leaves lay across the road.”
Dorothy Wordsworth, Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth, ed. Colette Clark, London: Penguin, 1986: 83.
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February 16, 2012 at 8:29 am
It is good to see someone recognises the contribution Dorothy made to understanding the life and times of the Wordsworth family. Often over shaddowed by her brother I feel.