Coleridge, Sara

Coleridge, Sara

▪ British author
born Dec. 22, 1802, Keswick, Cumberland, Eng.
died May 3, 1852, London

      English translator and author of children's verse, known primarily as the editor of the works of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel).

      During her childhood, her father was seldom at home, and his brother-in-law Robert Southey chiefly influenced Sara's early years. She did not see her father from 1812 to 1822, when she visited him at Highgate with her mother. Thereafter his influence was strikingly manifest.

      In 1829 she married her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge. For her children she wrote Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children (1834) and Phantasmion (1837), a fairy story with some delightful lyrics. When her husband died in 1843, she took up his unfinished task of editing her father's works and also made several contributions to Coleridgean studies. Notable among these were an “Essay on Rationalism,” appended to the 5th edition of Aids to Reflection (1843), and a supplement and exhaustive notes to the 2nd edition of Biographia Literaria (1847).

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