Flora in Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal

22 July 2017
Today we travelled to Hawkshead where Dorothy’s brother attended school. Dorothy and William were separated when their mother died in 1778, William going to attend Hawkshead School and Dorothy going to live with her aunt, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Dorothy and William remained separated for 18 years, until 1795 when they were reunited at Racedown. After moving to Alfoxden and Goslar, William and Dorothy finally settle at Dove Cottage in Grasmere in 1799. She begins writing her journal in May 1800. Returning to Grasmere, we walked from the town center of Grasmere, by Alan Bank (one of the Wordsworths’ homes in Grasmere), along the Easedale Valley toward the waterfalls at the end of the valley, taking photos of flowers along the trail.

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