Wordsworth's "Exquisite" Sister

Despite being very happily married I am finding myself falling for another woman. Mercifully she is long dead, but I have been reading the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister and lifelong companion of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. They are wonderful pieces of writing, less so the Alfoxden Journal of 1798, but the Grasmere Journal, written between 1800 and 1803 when Dorothy was in her early thirties and living with William at Dove Cottage (above, today) are remarkable, an understated poetic joy written by an individual, loveable young woman. What a sad loss that she never married (not that one must marry, but that she never knew the sustenance of reciprocal erotic love). Her favourite word seems to be "soft" but others spoke of her "wild eyes", a living example of Cathy, perhaps.