Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
Cultural formation | Christabel Coleridge | CC
, granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, was named after his poetic heroine Christabel. She grew up in an English, presumably white, middle-class, literary, Anglican
family. She later held Conservative views, especially on women's rights. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
death | Mary Robinson | An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones. Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. 13: 37 |
Dedications | Edith Sitwell | She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge
. Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson, 1965. prelims |
Dedications | Sara Coleridge | Following SC
's death, a poem dedicated to her father
was found amongst her unpublished papers. |
Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read... |
Education | Mary Matilda Betham | More important than his teaching were her own efforts in a congenial atmosphere. The family would read aloud from poems and plays, providing their own appreciation and criticism. In her diary she wrote: In our... |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
attended Oxford High School
. It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton
, then The... |
Education | Meiling Jin | She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting
) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton
(who was kept locked away)... |
Education | Sara Coleridge | Because of her interest in contemporary theological debate, SC
devoted her spring and summer to studying the works of John Henry Newman
and of her father
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 94 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Hoxton was London's centre for the care of the insane, with no less than three asylums. It is not clear exactly what Charles's trouble was, though it probably involved depression and may have had something... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | SC
's father was the famous poet, philosopher, and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. Though he was present for much of Sara's early childhood, their relationship later deteriorated because of his repeated absences, and also... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | SC
's father-in-law initially objected to the match, primarily for economic reasons. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 35, 47 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Yonge | CY
's father, William Crawley Yonge
, came from an established Devon family. He was related to the families of Coleridge
and Patteson
through an intermarriage in 1746 with Elizabeth Duke
, daughter of George Duke |
Timeline
18 June 1744
John Newbery
advertised his Little Pretty Pocket Book, one of the first books aimed at delighting children while instructing them.
By 18 September 1794
By this date Coleridge
claimed to have written one of the two sonnets attributed to him this year about the scheme for establishing Pantisocracy (a utopian community) in America.
29 December 1794
The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition views) printed a sonnet, Mrs Siddons, which was attributed to Coleridge
, but was actually written by Charles Lamb
.
20 August 1795
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
composed The Aeolian [or Eolian] Harp (published the following year).
By June 1796
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
compiled a booklet titled Sonnets from Various Authors: four each by himself, Southey
, Charles Lamb
, and Charles Lloyd
, two by Charlotte Smith
, and one each by seven more writers including Anna Seward
.
1798-1800
August Wilhelm
and Friedrich von Schlegel
published their periodicalDas Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.
1798-1800
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
published, in three parts, his historicaltragedyWallenstein.
February 1798
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wrote his conversation-poemFrost at Midnight, published the same year.
4 October 1798
Wordsworth
and Coleridge
published at Bristol the first edition of their epoch-making poetry collection Lyrical Ballads.
24 December 1799
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published in the Morning Post his ode in praise of the poetry of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
.
24 November 1800
The Morning Post printed Coleridge
's love-lyricAlcaeus to Sappho, which he had sent in about six weeks earlier and which was probably addressed to Mary Robinson
.
About 25 January 1801
The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared, in two volumes, including along with its poems by Wordsworth
and Coleridge
the former's famous Preface, written in 1800.
4 October 1802
The Morning Post carried Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's Dejection: An Ode, a lamentation over his sense of lost poetic power.
1 June 1809
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
began publishing his periodicalThe Friend. It ran till 15 March 1810 before being rewritten and issued as a book in 1818.
By May 1816
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published (together) Christabel, Kubla Khan, and The Pains of Sleep.