Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
ms, verse'To my neice Dorothy, a sleepless baby' 'The Cottager to her Infant' by Dorothy Wordsworth, third and fourth stanza by William Wordsworth. First line 'The days are cold; the nights are long'. Leaf 107v, vol 2. In the hand of Catherine Clarkson.
Provenance:
Bequest of Gordon Graham Wordsworth, 1935
Literature:
Levin, S. M.1987, Dorothy Wordsworth & Romamticism, Rutgers, The State University, p.175-188 ,
De Selincourt, E.1952, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Clarendon Press, II (p.50)
See also:
DCMS 50 (Recollections of a Tour in Scotland)
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