Phantasmion, A Fairy Tale

1874

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London: Henry S. KIng

The youngest of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s three children, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) grew up surrounded by England’s most famous poets, including her father, his close friend William Wordsworth, and her uncle, the poet-laureate Robert Southey. At age 27, she married her first cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843). Sara published a small collection of poems and the long prose fairy tale Phantasmion (1837). She also edited her father’s works for republication. Her edition of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (1847) remains highly regarded by modern scholars.