Sara Coleridge

Scholar, born in Keswick, Cumbria, NW England, UK, the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She was brought up in Robert Southey's household, married her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge in 1829, and helped to edit her father's writings. Her own works were Pretty Lessons for Good Children (1834) and Phantasmion (1837), a fairy tale.

Sara Coleridge (December 23, 1802 – May 3, 1852) was an English author and translator. She was the fourth child and only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sarah Fricker of Bristol.

She was born at Greta Hall, Keswick. Here, after 1803, the Coleridges, Robert Southey and his wife (Mrs Coleridge's sister), and Mrs Lovell (another sister), widow of Robert Lovell, the Quaker poet, all lived together; but Coleridge was often away from home;

Wordsworth, in his poem, the Triad, has left us a description, or poetical glorification, as Sara Coleridge calls it, of the three girls: his own daughter Dora, Edith Southey and Sara Coleridge, the last of the three, though eldest born. Greta Hall was Sara Coleridge's home until her marriage; Guided by Southey, and with his ample library at her command, she read by herself the chief Greek and Latin classics, and before she was five-and-twenty had learnt French, German, Italian and Spanish.

In 1822, Sara Coleridge published Account of the Abipones, a translation in three large volumes of Martin Dobrizhoffer, undertaken in connexion with Southey's Tale of Paraguay, which had been suggested to him by Dobrizhoffer's volumes;

In less grandiloquent terms, Charles Lamb, writing about the Tale of Paraguay to Southey in 1825, says, How she Dobrizhoffered it all out, puzzles my slender Latinity to conjecture.

In September 1829, at Crosthwaite church, Keswick, after an engagement of seven years duration, Sara Coleridge was married to her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843), younger son of Captain James Coleridge.

The first eight years of her married life were spent in a little cottage in Hampstead. In 1834 Mrs Coleridge published her Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children;

In 1837 the Coleridges moved to Chester Place, Regents Park; and in the same year appeared Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale, Sara Coleridges longest original work.

In 1843 Henry Coleridge died, leaving to his widow the unfinished task of editing her father's works. With a special application to the Doctrine of Bapttismal Regeneration, appended to Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, a Preface to the Essays on his Own Times, by S.

During the last few years of her life Sara Coleridge was a confirmed invalid. This, which reaches only to her ninth year, was completed by her daughter, and published in 1873, together with some of her letters, under the title Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge died in London on the 3rd of May 1852.

Her son, Herbert Coleridge (1830-1861), won a double first class in classics and mathematics at Oxford in 1852.