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 ...

AN exhibition which has opened at Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, the first home of poet William and his siblings Dorothy and John, presents the family as plants people and garden designers and ...

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 ...