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    Dorothy Wordsworth was a British poet and diarist born in 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. She received her education at Miss Medlin's School and Hipperholme Boarding School. Wordsworth was primarily known for her diaries and nature writing, though she also wrote poetry. Some of her most famous lines describe the beauty of nature, such as "The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow." While she did not seek to be a published poet, generations of readers have acknowledged her as a talented nature writer through her Grasmere journals.

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    Dorothy Wordsworth was a British poet and diarist born in 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. She received her education at Miss Medlin's School and Hipperholme Boarding School. Wordsworth was primarily known for her diaries and nature writing, though she also wrote poetry. Some of her most famous lines describe the beauty of nature, such as "The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow." While she did not seek to be a published poet, generations of readers have acknowledged her as a talented nature writer through her Grasmere journals.

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    Dorothy Wordsworth was a British poet and diarist born in 1771 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. She received her education at Miss Medlin's School and Hipperholme Boarding School. Wordsworth was primarily known for her diaries and nature writing, though she also wrote poetry. Some of her most famous lines describe the beauty of nature, such as "The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow." While she did not seek to be a published poet, generations of readers have acknowledged her as a talented nature writer through her Grasmere journals.

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    Date of
    Poet's Name Birthplace
    Birth

    Cockermouth, 25 December
    Dorothy Wordsworth Cumberland, England 1771

    Schools
    Picture of poet Education
    attended

    Hipperholme Miss Medlin’s


    Boarding School School

    Other interesting facts


    Subjects/ Themes Genre
    about the poet
    Wordsworth was primarily a diarist, and she also
    wrote poetry though without much interest in The Romantics love of
    becoming an established poet. Nature Romantic
    Her mother died when Wordsworth was six, and The Great Bond between
    she moved to Halifax to live with her aunt. Children and their Mothers. poem

    Achievements, Style Of
    Famous words
    Accomplishments, Awards Writing
    The most remarkable and the most
    ‘The moonlight lay upon
    distinguished of English prose writers
    the hills like snow’.
    who never wrote a line for the general ‘Every question was like
    public. the snapping of a little
    Generations of readers of her Grasmere thread about my heart.’
    ‘The moon had the old
    journals acknowledge Dorothy as a first- moon in her arms.
    rank nature writer

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