Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Although their meetings were cordial, Lamb criticised her, as well as her writings, as an intellectual woman. He commented to Coleridge that (apart from Elizabeth Inchbald ) he found clever women impudent, forward, unfeminine, and...

At this time MW 's achievements were admired by Southey , Coleridge , and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Robinson , and more warmly Eliza Fenwick

EF was well known to many of the English radicals of the 1790s: besides those already mentioned, she knew Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge . A particularly close and lifelong friend was Mary Hays

In Regency England GS met Coleridge , Southey , and Byron . Jane Austen , however, made a point of avoiding her.

DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .

Reduced financial circumstances did not prevent EG from meeting interesting people. In May 1823, when she went to visit an uncle who lived close to Hampstead Heath, she met at dinners the writers Joanna Baillie

On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS met Wordsworth and Coleridge .

DW 's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury and Mary Ann Lamb . She was very close to Coleridge , who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June...

Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke (whose daughter became Lady Byron ), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve , William Sotheby , William Harness

After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Charles

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 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...

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...