April 15

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth would occasionally go for long walks with her brother William. On one of these walks, on the 15th in 1802, the pair happened to pass a large field of daisies. The sight of these flowers inspired William to burden the world with the poem The Daffodills, which is the one that begins with I wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Isn’t her mobcap just the cutest little thing you ever saw?
Dorothy was also a writer, though she languished in her more famous brother’s shadow. In 1931, Beatrix Potter bought a house the brother and sister had occupied and discovered a vast collection of Dorothy’s work, which Potter published as the Grasmere Journal in 1933.