Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked forty miles in order to meet ALB and her husband . He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his.

After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Charles

Samuel Taylor Coleridge , once ALB 's protegé, began a series of public attacks on her writing in lectures. He deplored the way traditional nursery stories were giving way to tales inculcating insipid goodyness.

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

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.

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

SC had begun to experiment with opium (like her father ), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression.

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

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

MRM was working on this poem by July 1810. She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...

The Critical Review noticed this as the interesting, well realised work of an author already known to the public as an ingenious writer, though not always correct either in her sentiments or her style.

Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...