Samuel Taylor Coleridge

WW first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge this month, somewhere in London, though witnesses differ as to exactly where and how.

DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .

William and DW moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden House, four miles from Nether Stowey in Somerset, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, in order to be close to Coleridge and...

Though she is so closely associated with places in the English West Country and the Lake District, DW was a keen traveller. Her first trip abroad, from London via Hamburg to Goslar in Germany...

DW 's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury and Mary Ann Lamb . She was very close to Coleridge , who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June...

Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe 's Werther, which...

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