Sara Coleridge by Virginia Woolf
Sara Coleridge, by Virginia Woolf, is a biography of the English poet and critic Sara Coleridge (1802-1852). Woolf examines Coleridge's life and work, exploring her struggles with mental illness, her relationships with her family, and her literary accomplishments. Woolf also examines Coleridge's influence on the Romantic movement, her friendships with other writers, and her legacy. The book is an exploration of Coleridge's life and work, and a celebration of her achievements.
By Virginia Woolf · First published 1940 · Genre: Biography, Literary Criticism, Feminist Literature · 2,073 words
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Coleridge also left children of his body. One, his daughter, Sara, was a continuation of him, not of his flesh inded, for she was minute, aetherial, but of his mind, his temperament. The whole of her forty-eight years were lived in the light of his sunset, so that, like other children of great men, she is a chequered dappled figure flitting between a vanished radiance and the light of every day. And, like so many of her father's works, Sara Coleridge remains unfinished. Mr. Griggs (* COLERIDGE FILLE: A BIOGRAPHY OF SARA COLERIDGE. By Earl Leslie Griggs.) has written her life, exhaustively, sympathetically; but still. dots intervene. That extremely interesting fragment, her autobiography, ends with three rows of dots after twenty-six pages. She intended, she says, to end every section with a moral, or a reflection. And then "on reviewing my earlier childhood I find the predominant reflection. ." There she stops. But she said many things in those twenty-six pages, and Mr. Griggs has added others that tempt us to fill in the dots, though not with the facts that she might have given us.
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- Work type: Essay
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Date: 1940 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Biography, Literary Criticism, Feminist Literature, Historical Fiction
- Length: 2,073 words
- Structure: 1 section, 63 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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- Biography — The book is a biography of Sara Coleridge, written by Virginia Woolf.
- Literary Criticism — The book includes literary criticism of Sara Coleridge's works.
- Feminist Literature — The book is written from a feminist perspective, exploring the life and works of a female author.
- Historical Fiction — The book is set in the 19th century and includes historical details about the time period.
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