William likely first met Mary when she was but young, at dame school, at Penrith. The Wordsworth relationship, became a threesome, when, in 1802, William married Mary Hutchinson.
They continued to live together until William's death in 1850. In September of 1795, they determined to live with one another, moving into their first little cottage at Racedown, Dorset. It is at this point that we may see the beginnings of the close and lifelong relationship as did exist between William and Dorothy. After wondering around England, in particular through Wales, it will be recalled that William returned, in 1794, to the lands he knew as a boy. 44 William, as we have seen, was off to university (Cambridge) in 1787 and, beginning in 1790, was traveling around quite a lot, including being in France for a year in 1792. With no father and having been separated from her brothers since the age of six, at the age of fifteen, now a young woman, Dorothy was reintroduced to her brother, William: she fell in love with him, it was to be a deep and an abiding love which was to last a lifetime. The effect of leaving the business of raising a young impressionable girl by a maiden aunt, Elizabeth Threlkald, is a question we must leave for the psychologists to answer, supposing that they would have enough information to go on. Many women of the age, of the ages, share the desires and impulses of the male head of their household.
She was separated from her brothers and sent to live with her mother's relatives. She was to lose her mother at age six, her father at eleven. Wordsworth's Feminine Devotees, Part 7 to the Life & Works ofĭorothy was 21 months younger than William.
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