Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...

SC 's editorial apparatus includes a full response to accusations that much of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's work was plagiarised.

SC and her mother travelled south for a reunion with her father at Highgate on the edge of London.

Between 1849 and 1852, SC published several more texts by her father , including Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare and Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend (1850). The Poems...

In 1956 a reprint of the third edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit appeared, with an introduction by Joseph Henry Green and a note by SC .

SC had begun to experiment with opium (like her father ), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression.

After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC ) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray . She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge ,...

Charlotte Brontë 's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Both web and serpent are ominous. This...