Who lived at Dove Cottage?

CaroSun

William Wordsworth Jul 27 06, 1:23 PM

zbeckabee

Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District. It is best known as the home of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent 8½ years of "plain living, but high thinking". William married his wife Mary in 1802, and she and her sister joined the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage. The family quickly expanded, with the arrival of three children in four years, and the Wordsworths left Dove Cottage in 1808 to seek larger lodgings. The cottage was then occupied by Thomas de Quincey for a number of years, before being let to a succession of tenants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_Cottage Jul 27 06, 3:29 PM