The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-12
WORDSWORTH AND HIS TALENTED
 SISTER, DOROTHY

 e. Rowland, 2sS Park avenue, Mrs. J. A. George, a prominent literary wo- man, who is giving a course or lec- lures under the auspices or the Bridgeport Fresh Air Association, told of Dorothy wordsworth and her great love for her famous brother
 .s Wordsworth saw France just at the beginning of the French Revolution and his great ezal for the cause was through subsequent events, turned In to cynicism and it was only througn the careful watchfu1nes and sympathy of Dorothy that the delightful phil osophy and simple teachings of the great poet were ever given to the world
 Dorothy, according to the lecturer had rather the s5right, alert face of the modern American girl than of the typical English maiden. She was full of life and always ready to accompany her brother on any of his walks. Or ten the poet and his sister covered thirty miles on foot without consider ing it very much of an accomplish ment.
 Between wordsworth and his, sister. there was a curious sympathy which often manifested itself in their writ insys upon the same scenes or events Dorothys prose writings in her diary often contained the same thoughts and, phrases as her brother expressed in his poems,
 Dorothy would read to her brother and she also acted as his Arnanuensis. Many of Wordsworth'ss s poems are ded- icated to or make loving mention of his sister and show that he appreciated and acknowledged her value to him.
 The poet. Co1eridge, was a very in- timate friend of both Dorothy, and her brother and the poem for which he is perhaps most famous; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, was written to defray the expenses of a walking trip which the two Wordsworths and he planned to take. The thought of the poem and many of it's lines are Wordsworth's.
 Two other particular friends were Charles Lamb and his sister Mary and it was probably because they had lso much in common, b oth having Tbrothers who were geniuses, that the | two women were especially intimate. l Mrs. George described at length the quiet pastoral life which these peo- I pie lived. It was life in which luxury played no part as often they they were in very straitened circum- stances. Dorothy's cheerfulness and l optimism help them through all hard I ships. At one time she writes to a friend of papering her room with newspapers. E8# While they lived in Dorsetshire, the i inhabitants became suspicious of the two men who did no work and could not understand how any one could take long walks in the night just tc ] enjoy the moonlight and sd various lreports were circulated about the mild appearing Wordsworth and the more wild looking Coleridge. Some
 thought them spies which the Eng. l fish government had sent to Dorset shire that they might learn the atti; I tude of the inhabitants oward tn, king. Others considered them smug. t--T- Ar in the caves near the village. Tn ths end, the landlord refused to rent tn. cottage to them for the next year ana so they moved to the lake district. Here the prirnroses and dafoid1 grow wild in profusion and here it was tf1a. the poet found inspiration for man. lof his most beautiful poems. rDov, Cottage where the poet and his sis ter spent so many happy hours, il now owned by the government and i preserved in nearly the same condition as when they lived there.
 To this pretty little white plaste cottage overlooking the lakes, man, l of the most beloved literary men O
 the time came as visitors.
 Wordsworth married his cousin
 Mary Hutinheson, and it was to he he referred when he wrote that mos
 beautiful tribute to woman, .eshe wa.
 a phantom of delight. Il Dorothy Wordsworth, although sh
 had many offers, never married Sh
 outlived her brother some 30 years
 She lived to see and hear him honor ed as one of the greatest of EngHsl
 poets. Because she had used lip al
 of her wonderful fund of energy il her Searly days, trying to help he , brother, her later life was c1ouded
 her health being poor and her min,
 unclear. She was not unhappy, how
 ever, in these days, for she spen
 most of the time in grooming he Town or her brothers poems.
 The English speaking world owe to Dorothy Wordsworth's infiuenc
 some of its most beautiful poems.
 On Monday afternoon, May IS, Mrs George will speak at the home o Mrs. William D. Bishop, of 199 Court
 land street. Her subject will b "Elizaebth Barrett Browning and Lad