Dorothy Wordsworth was born in 1771 at Cockermouth, England. She was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. She was acquainted with the literary world since she was part of a group where she and the other members would share the same literary interests and have conversations. Dorothy Wordsworth had no ambitions to be a public author, yet she left behind numerous letters, diary entries, topographical descriptions, poems, and other writings. She wrote a journal in 1818 in which she related her journeys in different countries, such as Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and Scotland. In fact, she was friends with Walter Scott. She died in 1855 in Ambleside, England.