Dorothy Wordsworth’s diary, 1803

January

1. 10 January 1803

   I lay in bed to have a drench of sleep till one o'clock. Worked all day.... Ominously cold.

2. 11 January 1803

   A very cold day, ... but the blackness of the cold made us slow to put forward, and we did not walk at all. Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the…