Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sara received Anglican baptism sooner after her birth than her elder siblings had, which shows that her father 's Unitarian convictions were slackening. Though little is known about her own early religious beliefs, she was...

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.

An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones. Though not much past forty, she had outlived all of her immediate family except her daughter and one brother. Jane Porter wrote an obituary intended for periodical...

She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge . The endpapers reproduce her obituary from The Times. ES had previously written...

Following SC 's death, a poem dedicated to her father was found amongst her unpublished papers.

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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 .

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...

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...

SC 's father-in-law initially objected to the match, primarily for economic reasons. When he did come to terms with the union, the couple then had to wait until Henry completed his studies in...

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

MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...