<P> Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771--25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist . She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their lives . Wordsworth had no ambitions to be an author, and her writings consist only of series of letters, diary entries, poems and short stories . </P> <P> She was born on Christmas Day in Cockermouth, Cumberland in 1771 . Despite the early death of her mother, Dorothy, William and their three brothers had a happy childhood . When in 1783, their father died and the children were sent to live with various relatives, Wordsworth was sent alone to live with her aunt, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax, West Yorkshire . After she was able to be reunited with William, firstly at Racedown Lodge in Dorset in 1795 and afterwards (1797 / 98) at Alfoxden House in Somerset, they became inseparable companions . The pair lived in poverty at first, and would often beg for cast - off clothes from their friends . </P> <P> William wrote of her in his famous Tintern Abbey poem: </P>

What poem of william's did dorothy spend a day writing down for william but was never published