WIDDEMER, MARGARET.  Born at Doylestown, Pa.; educated at home; graduated
  at the Drexel Institute Library School 1909.  Began writing in
  childhood; her first published poem “The Factories” was widely quoted;
  married Robert Haven Schauffler 1919.  Among her books are “The
  Rose-Garden Husband,” “Winona of the Camp Fire,” “Factories, with
  Other Lyrics,” “Why Not?” “The Wishing-Ring Man,” “The Old Road to
  Paradise,” and “The Board Walk.” To Youth After Pain, 103.

WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER.  Born at Johnston Centre, Wis., 1855; died at her
  home in Connecticut, Oct. 31, 1919.  Educated “Poems of Pleasure,”
  “Kingdom of Love,” “Poems of Passion,” “Poems of Progress,” “Poems of
  Sentiment,” “New Thought Common Sense,” “Picked Poems,” “Gems from
  Wilcox,” “Faith,” “Love,” “Hope,” “Cheer,” and “The World and I.”
  Life, 139; Smiles, 226; Solitude, 16; The Disappointed, 126;
  Will, 107; Wishing, 86; Worth While, 28.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM.  Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng., Apr. 7, 1770;
  died at Rydal Mount, Apr. 23, 1850.  Educated at Hawkshead grammar
  school and Cambridge University, where he graduated 1791.  Traveled on
  Continent 1790; in France 1791-2, where he sympathized with the French
  republicans.  Received L900 legacy 1795, and settled with his sister
  Dorothy at Racedown, Dorsetshire; to be near Coleridge he removed to
  Alfoxden 1797; went to Continent 1798; returned to England 1799, and
  settled at Grasmere in the lake district; married Mary Hutchison 1802;
  settled at Allan Bank 1808; removed to Grasmere 1811.  Appointed
  distributer of stamps 1813, and settled at Rydal Mount; traveled in
  Scotland 1814 and 1832; on the Continent 1820 and 1837.  Given a
  pension of L300 by Peel 1842; became poet laureate 1843.  Some of his
  well-known poems are “The Excursion,” “Tintern Abbey,” “Yarrow
  Revisited,” “The Prelude,” “Intimations of Immortality,” and “We Are
  Seven.” Ode to Duty, 190; The Daffodils, 180; The Rainbow, 117.

WOTTON, SIR HENRY.  Born at Bocton Malherbe, Kent, Eng., 1568; died at
  Eton, 1639.  Educated at Winchester and Oxford; on the Continent
  1588-95; became the secretary of the Earl of Essex 1595; English
  ambassador to Venice, Germany, etc.; became provost of Eton College
  1624. Character of a Happy Life, 214.