Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...

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.

An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones. Though not much past forty, she had outlived all of her immediate family except her daughter and one brother. Jane Porter wrote an obituary intended for periodical...

Following SC 's death, a poem dedicated to her father was found amongst her unpublished papers.

She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge . The endpapers reproduce her obituary from The Times. ES had previously written...

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)...

Because of her interest in contemporary theological debate, SC devoted her spring and summer to studying the works of John Henry Newman and of her father .

HSW 's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare , Coleridge , and Whitman —and she read...

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...

Robert Jameson also became the first Speaker of the Legislature after the union of Upper and Lower Canada. A childhood friend of Hartley Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's son), he had been introduced to...

He married Edith Fricker in 1795; Coleridge married her elder sister.

SC married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge , who for a brief period before his own early death became her father 's literary executor.

Sarah' s father, Benjamin Flower , was a political writer, a religious dissenter, and the editor and publisher of the Cambridge Intelligencer, which first published six of Coleridge 's early poems. In 1799 he...