Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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...

SC 's father was the famous poet, philosopher, and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Though he was present for much of Sara's early childhood, their relationship later deteriorated because of his repeated absences, and also...

SC 's father-in-law initially objected to the match, primarily for economic reasons. When he did come to terms with the union, the couple then had to wait until Henry completed his studies in...

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...

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...

Hoxton was London's centre for the care of the insane, with no less than three asylums. It is not clear exactly what Charles's trouble was, though it probably involved depression and may have had something...

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...

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...

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

WW first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge this month, somewhere in London, though witnesses differ as to exactly where and how.

Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke (whose daughter became Lady Byron ), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve , William Sotheby , William Harness