Books about the Coleridge and Southey Families of England

The following is a list of books some of which are now out of print, written about various members of the Coleridge and Southey families. For those wishing to read or do research on the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Robert Southey, you best look else where. These books are biographical in nature and intended to provide the reader with insites into the daily lives of members of these families and indeed a look into life in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• The Story of a Devonshire House, Lord Coleridge, K. C.; Unwin - London, 1905
  Now out of print but I obtained a copy from the National Library of Canada through an interlibrary loan. This book wriiten by Bernard John Seymour Coleridge and published in 1905 is an account of the Ottery St. Mary Coleridges.

• The Bondage of Love, Molly Lefebure; Victor Gollancz Ltd - London, 1986
  Subtitled "A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Sarah Fricker was STC's wife and this book chronicles her life in Devon and at Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Dykes Campbell; MacMillan and Co. - London, 1894
  Subtitled, A Narrative of the Events of His Life. First published in 1894, it was reissued in 1970 by Lime Tree Bower Press of Highgate, London

• Coleridge Early Visions, Richard Holmes; Hodder & Stoughton, London,
  A biography of STC

• A Passionate Sisterhood, Kathleen Jones; Constable - London, 1997
  A Story about the sisters, wives and daughters of the Lake Poets (Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth)

• Coleridge, The Early Family Letters, James Engell; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994
  From the Preface; "The main task has been to publish early letters of the Coleridge family, providing enough annotation and context to permit individual readers to constuct their own biographical interpretations and historical conclusions."

• Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter, Bradford Keyes Mudge; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989
  A biography of STC's daughter, Sara Coleridge.

• Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge, Edited by her daughter, Edith Coleridge
  New York, Harper, 1874
  [New York, AMS Press, 1973]
  528 p. port. 23 cm.
  Includes bibliographical references.

• His Brother's Keeper, A Psychobiography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen M. Weissman, M. D.; International Universities Press, Inc., Madison. Connecticut, 1989
  One can conclude from the title of this book that this is a biography of STC from a particular point of view. The author writes about the friendship between STC and William Wordsworth.

• Greta Hall, Home of Coleridge and Southey, Harold W. Howe, 1970
  This text with revisions by Robert Woof in 1977 and published by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk discusses the families of STC and Robert Southey who both lived at Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland in the Lake District of England. Greta Hall was nicknamed the "Aunt Hill" by the children of these families because there were so many aunts (Sarah Coleridge, Edith Southey and Mary Lovell, the Fricker sisters) all living together under one roof.

• The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge, Theresa Whistler; Richard Clay and Company, Ltd., 1954
  While this book brings together the work of a little know poet, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, it also contains a short history of the author and her father, Arthur Duke Coleridge, the grandnephew of STC.

• Southey, Jack Simmons; Yale University Press, New Haven, 1948
  A biography of the poet and friend of STC, Robert Southey

• In Pursuit of Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn;
  London : Bodley Head, 1977.
  202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  Includes index
  Coburn visited Ottery St. Mary and talked with Lord and Lady Coleridge in her search for information on STC

• New Letters of Robert Southey Vol. I 1792-1810, Kenneth Curry; Columbia University Press Ltd.

• New Letters of Robert Southey Vol. II 1811-1838, Kenneth Curry; Columbia University Press Ltd.

• The Unknown Coleridge, Raymonde Hainton & Godfrey Hainton; Janus Publishing Co., England
  The Life and Times of Derwent Coleridge 1800 - 1883
  

• The Life of STC, Lawrence Hanson; Unwin, London 1938

• Coleridge & Wordsworth in the West Country, Tom Mayberry ; with a foreword by Lord Coleridge
  Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire ; Wolfeboro Falls, NH : A. Sutton, 1992.
  ix, 182 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-177) and index.

• Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset, Newton Abbot, David & Charles [1970]
  196 p. illus. 23 cm.
  Distributed in the United States by Barnes & Noble.
  Bibliography: p. [189]-190

• Piety and the professions : Sir John Coleridge and his sons, Timothy J. Toohey.
  New York : Garland, 1987.
  x, 359 p. ; 24 cm.
  Bibliography: p. [334]-345.
  Includes index

• Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, Joseph Cottle
  Highgate, London, Lime Tree Bower Press, 1970

• Robert Southey A Life, Mark Storey, Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham, England; Oxford University Press, 1997

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