Mary Simpson Coleridge

CC's mother, Mary (Pridham) Coleridge, came from Plymouth. She married Chistabel's father on 6 December 1827.

Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry, ED as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Henry Newbolt, Mary Coleridge

Probably CY's closest friend was Marianne Dyson, an unmarried invalid twenty years her senior, to whom she habitually signed her letters as Your loving Slave. The family of George and Mary Anne Moberly

AM later said she was pleased with The First Snow and Maternity because she found them two of her most undecorated, or simple, poems. She wrote to her husband that more undecorated, henceforth, my...

They produced a hand-written journal called The Barnacle. They included Mary Coleridge (a poet, who was in at the group's founding), Christabel Coleridge (who became CY's biographer), Frances Mary Peard, and Mary Augusta Arnold, later Mrs Humphry Ward