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Occupation | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co., 1864. 33 |
Literary responses | Mary Collyer | This was not to the Critical's taste. It had already this year declared its dislike of German poetry, and slammed Mary Scott
's Messiah. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 16 (1763): 393-4 |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
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... |
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. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | Christabel Coleridge | CC
's father, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge
, was a son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. Derwent published poetry in his youth under the pseudonym Davenant Cecil in the Knight's Quarterly. While his literary... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Coleridge | Sara Coleridge
, CC
's aunt, who followed in the family tradition by becoming a writer, translator, and editor, died in 1852, while Christabel was still a child. She dedicated her adulthood to preserving and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sara Coleridge | SC
's father
died on 25 July 1834 following a long illness. She was left deeply affected and much shaken qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 72 |
Reception | Christabel Coleridge | Though she had a prolific writing career, CC
's novels, stories, and tales have largely been forgotten. There is no biography of her, and what little criticism there is takes the form of reviews of... |
Literary responses | Sara Coleridge | This work was seen as an early indication of SC
's talents and promise. In the year of its publication her father
said My dear daughter's translation of this book is . . . unsurpassed. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
was MEC
's great-great uncle. She once wrote of this literary heritage: I have no fairy god-mother, but lay claim to a fairy great-great-uncle, which is perhaps the reason that I am... |
Publishing | Sara Coleridge | SC
wrote: No work is so inadequately rewarded either by money or credit as that of editing miscellaneous, fragmentary, immethodical literary remains like those of STC
. Such labours cannot be rewarded for they cannot... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | MEC
's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake
. Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is... |
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