Readers share their views on the talent and values of the other great writer in the Wordsworth family, William’s sister Dorothy
Dorothy Wordsworth’s rare achievement as the other great writer in the Wordsworth family and an early environmentalist (Editorial, 19 December) is the focus of a year-long celebration of her life in the town where she was born on Christmas Day 250 years ago – Cockermouth in Cumbria.
The centrepiece of the project, supported by our local councils, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and others, is a unique Portrait of Dorothy light installation artwork that this year is part of the town’s much loved Christmas lights. Commissioned by the local charity that I chair, Kirkgate Arts and Heritage, from the Cumbrian arts practice ArtFly, the “statue in light” stands on a temporary plinth woven from Cumbrian willow and hazel.
