Grasmere, Cumbria - Dove Cottage home of Wordworth - Webster postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Home of Wordsworth 1799-1803)
• Publisher:  Webster, Keswick
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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• Notes / condition:  very slight wear

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of ""plain living, but high thinking"". During this period, William wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today, including his ""Ode: Intimations of Immortality"", ""Ode to Duty"", ""My Heart Leaps Up"" and ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"", together with parts of his autobiographical epic, The Prelude.

William Wordsworth 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.

The cottage was acquired by the Wordsworth Trust in 1890 and opened to the public in 1891. The house is a Grade 1 listed building, and remains largely unchanged from Wordsworth's day. It receives approximately 70,000 visitors a year.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=cumberland/ westmorland

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted