Christabel Coleridge

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CC 's writing career spanned over forty years in the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. She published nearly thirty-nine novels, four collaborative fictional works, one collection each of short stories, tales, and essays, a study of English literature, and a biography. Many of her novels, stories, and tales were intended for young girls and women, and she often deals with family dynamics. She also edited two periodicals.
  • BirthName: Christabel Rose Coleridge
  • Indexed: Christabel R. Coleridge

Milestones

25 May 1843

CC was born in Chelsea at St Mark's College, an Anglican teacher training college where her father served as clergyman and teacher.
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/.

1869

CC published her first novel, Lady Betty, an eighteenth-century historical tale for young readers.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

14 November 1921

CC died at Cheyne, Bridge Road, Torquay, Devon
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

25 May 1843

CC was born in Chelsea at St Mark's College, an Anglican teacher training college where her father served as clergyman and teacher.
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/.