Sara Coleridge (1802 – 1852). English author and translator. She was the third child out of four and the only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker. She gained further popularity with instructive verses for children.
Guided by the poet Robert Southey, and with his ample library at her command, she read by herself the chief Greek and Latin classics, and before she was twenty-five had learnt in addition French, German, Italian and Spanish.
In September 1829, 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. He was then a chancery barrister in London.
Coleridge suffered a number of miscarriages and only two of her children, Herbert and Edith, survived to adulthood. Her son, Herbert Coleridge (1830–1861), won a double first class in classics and mathematics at Oxford in 1852. Her daughter, Edith Coleridge, edited a biography of Sara, The Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge (1873), which helped to preserve her mother's legacy.
- "... a complexion of dazzling fairness, rich auburn hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=Ku1CBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT95...
- "Wherever she went, people were struck by her rare beauty - large, pale-blue eyes, fair auburn hair and minute figure..." chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41989153.pdf
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