Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

Coleridge (though he was later respectful of CS 's sonnets) was surely aiming at her in his Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnet parodies in the Monthly Magazine.

Coleridge , in the preface to the second edition of his Poems, named CS and William Lisle Bowles as having served the cause of poetry by reviving the sonnet.

CS knew Samuel Taylor Coleridge well enough to entertain him at her house, although he had already written parodies of her sonnet style.

The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...

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...

Unlike a volume by the same title which she published in 1827, this one included new poetry as well as former contributions to magazines. Her preface mentions the influence exercised over her by Coleridge ...

The reviewer drew parallels between DS 's naïveté and that of Coleridge .

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

MS and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge 's lectures at the Royal Institution

They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic...

BR published Ancestral Voices, last in her series of autobiographical novels set in Wales, and the last publication of her long writing career.

Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank...

MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...

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...