Coleridge, Sara (1802-1852)

English scholar and editor. She edited the work of her father Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She was also a writer and translator. Her Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children appeared in 1834 and Phantasmion, an imaginative fairy tale, in 1837.

Sara Coleridge was born at Greta Hall, near Keswick, Cumbria, and lived under the care of the poet Robert Southey and in the frequent society of William Wordsworth. In 1821 she published an excellent translation of Dobrizhoffer's Latin Account of the Abipones, a people of Paraguay, and also translated the Memoirs of the Chevalier Bayard (1825).