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For the poet, daughter of William Wordsworth, see Dora Wordsworth.

English author, poet and diarist

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December – 25 January ) 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.

Early life and education

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland on December 25, She was the sister of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and the third of five children born to Ann Cookson and John Wordsworth.

Following the death of her mother in , Dorothy was sent alone to live with her second cousin, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax, West Yorkshire until During this period, Dorothy attended boarding school at Hipperholme before transferring to a day-school in Halifax.^&