Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

She once took her friend and ex-teacher Frances Arabella Rowden to hear Coleridge lecture, and sat on tenterhooks as he belittled certain popular poems and seemed about to include one of Rowden's.

CFC was a very social person who made friends wherever she went. A visit in 1826 to the Frere family at Hampstead allowed her to meet several interesting characters: the poet Samuel Coleridge , the...

The direction of WH 's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and through him with William and Dorothy Wordsworth .