Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...

Anne Bradby (later AR ) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams , the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture...

When she met him, Kingsley was experiencing severe religious doubts. Fanny's influence in his religious development during his undergraduate years should not be underestimated. She encouraged him to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Thomas Carlyle

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...

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...

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

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...

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)...