Death of Wordsworth’s Sister (16 February 1855)

“Death of Wordsworth’s Sister.” Elgin Courant and Morayshire Courier, 16 February 1855, p. 4.

Obituary. “The living links that unite us to poets of the first half of the present century are fast disappearing from among us. Last week added another of the many that have gone. Dorothy Wordsworth, the only sister of William Wordsworth, died at Rydal Mount in Westmoreland, on the 25th of January, in her eighty-fourth year.”