Christabel Rose Coleridge
Christabel Rose Coleridge | |
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Born | London, England | 25 May 1843
Died | 14 November 1921 Torquay, Devon, England | (aged 78)
Occupation | Writer, editor |
Nationality | English |
Period | 19th century |
Genre | Children's literature |
Parents | Derwent Coleridge |
Christabel Rose Coleridge (25 May 1843 – 14 November 1921) was an English novelist and an editor of girls' magazines, sometimes in collaboration with the novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge. Her views on the role of women in society were conservative.
Early life
A granddaughter of the poet,
Writings, friendships
She went on to publish more than 15 novels. The first was a children's historical story called Lady Betty (1869). Minstrel Dick (1896) is set mainly in the 14th-century
Christabel was a friend of Charlotte Yonge's, distantly related to her through
In the early 1890s, Christabel and her "
Another friend was Frances Mary Peard (1835–1923), who wrote more than 40 books published from 1867 to 1909, mostly domestic novels and short-story volumes.[3]
Life's work
Christabel Rose Coleridge had at least 89 works of hers published in a total of at least 286 publications.[4]
In 1880, Christabel moved to Torquay when her father retired there. She had conservative ideas about the role of women in society, and a collection of her essays on the subject was published in 1894, The Daughters Who Have Not Revolted. Her last novel, Miss Lucy: A Character Study, was published in 1908.[5]
Christabel Rose Coleridge's life ended on 14 November 1921 in Torquay, Devon, at the age of 78.
References
- ^ "The Gosling Society 1859–1877". The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship. Durham University Community. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- Mary Susanna Lee, Eleanor C. Price, and Florence Wilford. "Robert Temple Bibliographical Archive"(archive 4). Robert Temple Booksellers. 2 March 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2012. Archived 29 April 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ "Getting Into Print: Frances Mary Peard, 1835–1922". Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800–1900. Cornell University Library (rmc.library.cornell.edu). February 8 – May 31, 2002.
- ^ OCLC WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^ "Miss Lucy. A character study..., 1908." Main catalogue, British Library. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter, Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Cherry Durrant, "Derwent Coleridge", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(2004)
External links
- Please Tell Me a Tale (1885 anthology) at Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature – contains "Blanche's Maying" by "Miss C. R. Coleridge"
- Works by Christabel R. Coleridge at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Christabel Rose Coleridge at Internet Archive
- Works by Christabel Rose Coleridge at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Christabel R. Coleridge at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalogue records