The Lake District 44 CHAPTER VI. Life at Grasmere 59 CHAPTER VII. Some Memorial Nooks--Lancrigg Wood--Emma's Dell--William's Peak--Point Rash Judgment--Rock of Names 71 CHAPTER VIII. The Circle Widened--Mrs. Wordsworth 81 CHAPTER IX. Tour in Scotland--Miss Wordsworth's Journal 93 CHAPTER X. Life at Grasmere--Capt. Wordsworth 112 CHAPTER XI. De Quincey--His Description of Miss Wordsworth--Removal to Allan Bank 120 CHAPTER XII. The Children of Blentarn Ghyll--Deaths of Wordsworth's Children 131 CHAPTER XIII. Removal to Rydal Mount--Dora Wordsworth 139 CHAPTER XIV. Friends--Tour on Continent 146 CHAPTER XV. Further Influence 155 CHAPTER XVI. Illness and Last Years 169 CHAPTER XVII. A Quiet Resting-place 186 CHAPTER XVIII. Miss Wordsworth's Poems 194 CHAPTER XIX. Journal of Tour at Ullswater 203 LIST OF AUTHORITIES. _The Poetical Works of Wordsworth._ _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, by the late Bishop of Lincoln. _Wordsworth's Prose Works._ _Miss Wordsworth's Tour in Scotland._ Edited by Principal Shairp. _Wordsworth's Description of the Lakes._ _Tait's Edinburgh Magazine_, 1839 and 1840. _Recollections of the Lakes_, by De Quincey. _Life of De Quincey_, by H. A. Page. _Memoirs of Hazlitt_, by W. Carew Hazlitt. _Diary and Reminiscences of Henry Crabb Robinson._ _Wordsworth_, by F. W. H. Myers (_English Men of Letters_). _Autobiography of Sir Henry Taylor._ _Memoir of Sara Coleridge._ _Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher._ _Cottle's Early Recollections of Coleridge._ _Howitt's Homes and Haunts of the British Poets._ _Letters of Charles Lamb_, by T. N. Talfourd. _The Lake Country_, by Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. _The English Lake District as Interpreted in the Works of Wordsworth_, by Professor Knight. _Blackwood's Magazine._ _The Transactions of the Wordsworth Society._ "I knew a maid,