Hough, Graham. “Dorothy Wordsworth: Sharer in Genius.” Manchester Guardian, 25 January 1955, p. 6.
“To be the inspiration of a great poet is one of the surest passports to immortality for a woman. But it is generally a necessary condition for this that she shall not be his sister. It is the distinction of Dorothy Wordsworth to have been celebrated not in her lover’s verse but in her brother’s; and to have been not a distant ideal but an ever-present companion in the process of creation. ¶ The centenary of her death falls to-day, and it is hard to avoid speculation on the difference to the course of English poetry made by that one quiet life.”
Dorothy Wordsworth 