Pomeroy —  Little-known Sisters (1912)

Pomeroy, Sarah Gertrude. Little-known Sisters of Well-known Men. Boston: Dana Estes & Co. 1912.

See “Dorothy Wordsworth,” pp. 73–113. “For more than half a century, the name of Dorothy Wordsworth has been a symbol of ideal sisterhood and her life has furnished a standard by which those of other women placed in similar positions have been compared” (p. 75).

Copy: Library of Congress.

Digital copy: HathiTrust.

Ashton — William and Dorothy (1938)

Ashton, Helen. William and Dorothy: A Novel of the Wordsworths. London: Collins, 1938; New York: Macmillan 1938.

Includes a short bibliography (pp. 3–4). “The first idea of this book was given to me by my sister, Katherine Davies, when we were collaborating in I Had a Sister (Lovat Dickson, 1937). It was she who suggested that Dorothy Wordsworth should be made the heroine of this novel” (p. 3).

Reprinted 1950, 1968, 1974.

An online version of the 1938 edition (New York) is available on HathiTrust.