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Sara Coleridge |
22 Feb 2007 |
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Out of her father’s shadow
Sarah Coleridge could hardly have had a more literary upbringing – growing up as she did in the Lake District with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge for a father and in close proximity to the Wordsworths.
Known by her contemporaries as a children’s poet, much of her writing has only just come to light – it seems she didn’t just share her writing ability with her father, like him she was addicted to opium. Her editor, Dr Peter Swaab, senior lecturer in English at University College London, joins us to explore the life and intellect of this astonishing 19th century woman.
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