Edith Coleridge (1832 24 January 1911) was a British author. She edited ''The Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge'' (1873), a popular biography of her mother. An archive of her collected works is held at the Henry Ransom Center at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

Biography

Edith Coleridge was the daughter of writer Sara Coleridge, who in turn was the daughter of poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lak ...

. Sara Coleridge married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, who was Samuel Taylor Coleridge's literary executor. Edith had a brother,

Herbert Coleridge Herbert "Herbie" Coleridge (7 October 1830 – 23 April 1861) was an English philologist, technically the first editor of what ultimately became the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. He was a grandson of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Biograph ...

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Collected papers at the Harry Ransom Center
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