Dove Cottage, Grasmere

The wonderful Dove Cottage at Grasmere, home to Dorothy and William Wordsworth -- and Coleridge, at times. The cottage interior is small and dark (needing a fire on a gloomy summer's day) but one does leave with a sense of a crowded social life despite the Cumbrian isolation. What a household--Dorothy in a room adjacent to her brother and his wife and the children in an attic area off the tiny guest room which housed Coleridge when he visited--and where the children were often woken by Coleridge's nightmares.