She wrote a very early account of an ascent of Scafell Pike in 1818 (perhaps predated only by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's of 1802), climbing the mountain in the company of her friend Mary Barker, Miss Barker's maid, and two local people to act as guide and porter.
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Her Grasmere Journal was published in 1897, edited by William Angus Knight.
Greta Hall was visited by a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures including William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Sir George Beaumont, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb 1802, Thomas De Quincey and John Ruskin.
Pilsdon Pen is said to have consoled Dorothy Wordsworth as she pined for the Lakeland hills when staying nearby.
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By 1810, Wordsworth was living near Grasmere with his sister and collaborator Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister-in-law, his wife, and their four small children.
He includes in this section a long passage transcribed nearly intact from the 1805 journal of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth about a trip they took from their home in Grasmere to Ullswater (see Sélincourt footnote pp 181 – 182).