The marriage was happy but Dorothy was too hysterical to attend the wedding. In 1802, William married Mary Hutchinson, who was Dorothy's best friend. It was her first real and constant home since her mother died.
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In 1799, Dorothy settled with her brother in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, in the Lake District. They two of them were very close in spirit and mind. William's poems, such as "Lines" and "To My Sister," give no hint of any incestuous attraction, but do express his happiness, when she accompanies him on the walking trips. Some biographers have speculated about a strong mutual attraction between the two. With her brother, Dorothy occasionally played a curious game they would lie down next to each other outdoors, pretending to be in their graves. The three of them, Colridge, William, and Dorothy, were often referred to as one being, as they exhibited so many of the same thoughts and beliefs. Her thoughts and writings were an important source of stimulation for Coleridge and William. In Alfoxden, she started her first journal, and then kept several other journals of her travels and expeditions. It contained, among others things, lists of the clothes, from shirts and nightcaps to fur items, that she would need in the cold winter, and also a list of groceries-bread, milk, sugar, and rum. For the journey she bought a notebook, which she used for her daily affairs. Coleridge spent a good deal of time in the University city of Göttingen. At Alfoxden, Somerset, she became friends with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, traveling with him and William in Germany (1798-99), where they had lodgings in Goslar. Wordsworth began writing in about 1795, when she shared a house in Dorset with her brother, William. After the winter of 1793/4, she continued to stay in various other places. She read, wrote, and improved her French. She enjoyed her life in Norfolk more than at her grandmother's house. From 17 to 22, she lived at Forncett Rectory, Norfolk, where her mother's brother, William Cookson, took her in. However, she was not to see much of them before she was 23. At the age of fifteen, she went to her grandparents in Penrith and met her brothers again. Due to her parents' untimely deaths, she did not spend much time with her brothers, as she was forced to move frequently. He died intestate, his affairs in chaos, at which time, Dorothy was removed from boarding-school. "I know," she later wrote in her journals, "that I received much good that I can trace back to her." Dorothy's father, John Wordsworth, an attorney, died when she was just twelve.
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Ann Cookson of Penrith, her mother, died when Dorothy was six. Dorothy spent her childhood with various relatives. Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland.