Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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. She took part in the Book Society while she lived...

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. Now it called Mr Collyer's translation...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

On her wedding day her father conveyed to SC as his gift a valuable folio copy of Virgil 's Georgics published two years previously with the text given in six languages. He inscribed it, indicating...

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...

SC 's father died on 25 July 1834 following a long illness. She was left deeply affected and much shaken by his death, perhaps particularly because she had been unable to visit him during...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...