Sister to poet William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth is best known for her journals, especially those from her time at Grasmere and Alfoxden. She and William resided together after 1795, and she became an important part of the creative community that included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and others. In addition to her journals, she authored a number of poems, a travel diary of a tour of Scotland, and an account of a Grasmere couple who died in a snowstorm, leaving eight orphan children. With the exception of three poems that appear in Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author (1815), none of these works were published in Dorothy Wordsworth’s lifetime.