He needed to earn money somehow, and in any case, the Revolution was starting to turn into the Terror 9. Before the child was born, however, William had to go back to England. They had an affair and Annette became pregnant. She was a Royalist and a Roman Catholic, but you can't fight chemistry. In the city of Orleans, he met a young woman named Annette Vallon. The country was then in the early, glorious stages of the French Revolution, and William was only one of many Englishmen who were fascinated by its Republican ideals. He chose his own course of studies from then on, and though he did graduate, it wasn't what you would call a real degree 8.Īfter graduation, William wandered aimlessly through France for a time. They paid for William to go to Cambridge, where he did very well in his first year, but soon realized Cambridge was no place for him 7. The kids were foisted on two uncles 6 who were very peeved at having to take care of them.
The largest debt, that owed by John's employer, the Earl of Lowther, amounted to nearly £5,000 of that sum, and would not be paid to the Wordsworths for 19 years. Though theoretically John's estate was worth £10,485, that amount included many debts which people owed him. When John Wordsworth died in 1783, the outlook for the children became really bleak. William was allowed to run wild, and became quite the young sportsman. William was sent away (I think maybe his father couldn't handle him very well) to a grammar school some distance away 5. The Wordsworth children had a pretty happy childhood 4 on the whole, at least until their mother, Ann, died in 1778.
William was definitely the wild one of the family, and his sister Dorothy 3, a year younger than him, was usually his only ally in the family. His father, John, a lawyer, was very educated and liberal for the time, and encouraged all his children to be the same. William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth 2, Cumberland, the second of five children.
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