The Letters of Sara HutchinsonKathleen Coburn University of Toronto Press, 15 груд. 1954 р. - 474 стор. Sarah Hutchinson has never been much more than a name, though a name connected with some of the greatest in English literature. The sister of Mrs. Wordsworth, and a member of the Wordsworth household for thirty years, Coleridge's beloved Asra to whom many of his poems were written, Southey's friend and Lamb's, and a guest of the Arnolds at Rugby, she was a member of an interesting circle. For her intimate relations to Wordsworth and Coleridge it has long been apparent that we should like to know her better. Now her letters to members of her family and to friends demonstrate how worthwhile it is to know her for herself as well. The letters come from the family and from the Wordsworth collection at Dove Cottage and are here printed (almost in full) for the first time. They show a lively and amusing woman, kind, forthright to the extent of bluntness, especially when she takes up the cudgels in the cause of what she considers truth or justice or human kindness. Coleridge describes her in one apt and characteristic sentence: 'If Sense, Sensibility, Sweetness of Temper, perfect simplicity and unpretending Nature, joined to shrewdness and entertainingness make a valuable Woman, Sara Hutchinson is so.' Such qualities certainly make a delightful letter-writer. |
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... gone where these things trouble not, where, I hope, no rumour of earth reaches and no memory of earth remains.† Young Sara Coleridge described her as very short and with only one attractive feature, her light brown hair. But we see from ...
... biographer of Coleridge might covet for his final sentence: 'Poor dear Coleridge is gone! He died a most calm and happy death – tho he had suffered great pain for some time previous. He was opened – the disease was at.
... gone under the mill for her to send her love 'to dear STC'. But the old Sara shines through in her barely concealed admonition to young Sara to 'rouze' herself, to pay no attention to advice [her mother's!] to seek 'quiet'. What she ...
... most sincerely your Friend S. H. Mary1 & Dorothy1 desire their kind remembrances – Wm1 is gone to Brougham to Capt Wordsworth.‡. 5. Miss Monkhouse, 21 Budge Row, London [Oct. 1808] My dear Mary You cannot conceive the strange perplexities ...
... gone – but, as if I should get an answer, have put it off till the last – It is a comfort however to find that he is in such good spirits. I hope it may be a good omen – If he is not sailed tell him I do not fear but that I shall be ...
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