As an adult, she was further immortalised by him in the 1828 poem "The Triad",[3] along with Edith Southey[4] and Sara Coleridge, daughters of her father's fellow Lake Poets.
While her father initially opposed the marriage, the "temperate but persistent pressure" exerted by Isabella Fenwick, a close family friend, convinced him to relent.
[5] Throughout her life, Wordsworth formed intense romantic attachments to both men and women, the most significant being her friendship with Maria Jane Jewsbury.
[4] Another close friend was Maria Kinnaird, adoptive daughter of Richard "Conversation" Sharp and the future wife of Thomas Drummond.
Sara Coleridge complained after Wordsworth's death that her father's demands on her "frustrated a real talent".