Early life and educationWordsworth was born in Cumberland, in the picturesque region of northwest England called the Lake District. His sister was the poet and diarist Dorothyworth. When his mother died in 1778, his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. In 1783 his father, who was a barrister and solicitor for the Earl of Lonsdale (a man much despised in the area), died. The estate amounted to around £4,500, the bulk of it consisting of claims on the earl, who thwarted these claims until his death in 1802. The earl's successor, however, settled the claims with interest. After their father's death, the Theworth children were left under the guardianship of their uncles. Although many aspects of his childhood were positive, he remembers times of loneliness and anxiety. It took him many years and a lot of writing to recover from the death of his parents and his separation from his siblings. Wordsworth began attending St John's College, Cambridge in 1787. Three years later, in 1790, he visited revolutionary France and supported the Republican Movement. The following year he graduated from Cambridge without distinction.Relationship with Annette VallonIn November 1791, Worth came to France and took a walking tour of Europe which included the Alps and Italy. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who gave birth in 1792 to their child, Caroline...