Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter 9780300162080
Sara Coleridge, daughter of the poet, was a woman of exceptional intellectual energy. Herself a talented writer, she dev
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Sara Coleridge and the Politics of Literary Revision
2. "Castles in the Air": Education, Romance, and the Beauty of the Soul
3. "The House of Bondage": Marriage, Motherhood, and the Death of Coleridge
4. "The Great Art": From Madness to Matriarchy
5. "The Business of Life": Public Venerations, Private Redemptions
6. "Putting in Order a Literary House": Last Rites and First Memories
7. Postscript: "Child of Genius"
Appendix. The Essays of Sara Coleridge
On the Disadvantages Resulting from the Possession of Beauty
Nervousness
On Mr. Wordsworth's Poem Entitled "Lines Left on a Yew-tree Seat"
[On the British Constitution]
Reply to Strictures of Three Gentlemen upon Carlyle
Reasons for Not Placing "Laodamia" in the First Rank of Wordsworthian Poetry
[The Autobiography of Sara Coleridge]
Notes
Index
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Sara Coleridge and the Politics of Literary Revision
2. "Castles in the Air": Education, Romance, and the Beauty of the Soul
3. "The House of Bondage": Marriage, Motherhood, and the Death of Coleridge
4. "The Great Art": From Madness to Matriarchy
5. "The Business of Life": Public Venerations, Private Redemptions
6. "Putting in Order a Literary House": Last Rites and First Memories
7. Postscript: "Child of Genius"
Appendix. The Essays of Sara Coleridge
On the Disadvantages Resulting from the Possession of Beauty
Nervousness
On Mr. Wordsworth's Poem Entitled "Lines Left on a Yew-tree Seat"
[On the British Constitution]
Reply to Strictures of Three Gentlemen upon Carlyle
Reasons for Not Placing "Laodamia" in the First Rank of Wordsworthian Poetry
[The Autobiography of Sara Coleridge]
Notes
Index
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Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter
Sara Coleridge by Samuel Laurence, 1850. From the frontispiece of Edith Coleridge, Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge, 1873
Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter Her Life and Essays
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