Sara Hutchinson (1775 - 1835). Daughter of a family of Yorkshire farmers, she was the younger sister of Mary Wordsworth (wife of William Wordsworth). The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge fell in love with her after meeting her in 1799, during his first visit to the north of England and the Lakes. Nothing came of this, though, because she was fond of him, but didn't love him.
Practical and eminently capable, Sara, who never married, spent a great deal of time with the Wordsworths and their children. She also became a very close friend of the Southey family, providing invaluable assistance after the death of Herbert Southey in 1816 and also in the mid 1830s during Edith Southey’s confinement in The Retreat, York.
She inspired many of Coleridge's poems, where she is called Asra.
- "... she was not a conventionally romantic, dreamy Muse. She was cheerful and outgoing, a small energetic figure with a mass of auburn hair..." http://samueltaylorbloggeridge.blogspot.com/.../on-name...
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