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What was Dorothy Wordsworth’s relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

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Dorothy Wordsworth enjoyed a close companionship with her brother William Wordsworth and fellow Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The friendship has been characterized as “three persons with one soul.” Dorothy’s Alfoxden Journal 1798 is a record of William’s friendship with Coleridge that led to the landmark poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, which sparked English Romanticism.

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