Maclean, Catherine Macdonald. Born under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt. London: Collins, 1943.
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“If, as De Quincey suggests, Hazlitt made an offer of marriage to Dorothy Wordsworth, it must have been in this year [1803], for he would hardly have ventured to propose marriage to any woman in 1798 [when he had previously met her], when he was penniless and prospectless; and he saw nothing of Dorothy in later years. Yet there is no positive evidence to confirm the suggestion, and all of what we might call negative evidence seems to point to its falsity” (p. 592).
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Dorothy Wordsworth 