12 Facts About Sara Coleridge

Sara Coleridge was an English author and translator.

Sara Coleridge was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.

Sara Coleridge then married and had several children for whom she wrote instructive verses.

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.

In 1822, Sara Coleridge published Account of the Abipones, a translation in three large volumes of Martin Dobrizhoffer, undertaken in connection with Southey's Tale of Paraguay, which had been suggested to him by Dobrizhoffer's volumes; and Southey alludes to his niece, the translator, where he speaks of the pleasure the old missionary would have felt if.

In September 1829, at Crosthwaite Parish Church, Keswick, after an engagement of seven years duration, Sara Coleridge was married to her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge, younger son of Captain James Coleridge.

In 1834, Mrs Sara Coleridge published her Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme.

In 1843, Henry Sara Coleridge died, leaving to his widow the unfinished task of editing her father's works.

Sara Coleridge's physician decided not to operate, prescribing cod liver oil and opium.

Sara Coleridge died of breast cancer in London on 3 May 1852.

Sara Coleridge suffered a number of miscarriages and only two of her children, Herbert and Edith, survived to adulthood.

Sara Coleridge was secretary to a committee appointed by the Philological Society to consider the project of a standard English dictionary, a scheme of which the New English Dictionary, published by the Clarendon Press, was the ultimate outcome.