Edith Coleridge

{{Short description|British author}}

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| name = Edith Coleridge

| image = Edith Coleridge.jpg

| alt = Black and white portrait of Edith Coleridge sitting in a chair

| caption = Edith Coleridge, from A Poet's Children, Hartley and Sara Coleridge (1912)

| birth_date = 1832

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1911|1|24|1832|||df=y}}

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| parents = {{unbulleted list|Henry Nelson Coleridge|Sara Coleridge}}

| relatives = {{unbulleted list|Herbert Coleridge (brother)|Samuel Taylor Coleridge (maternal grandfather)}}

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Edith Coleridge (1832 {{ndash}} 24 January 1911) was a British author. She edited The Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge (1873), a popular biography of her mother.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuBLDwAAQBAJ&q=edith+coleridge+author+writer&pg=PA6|title=The Vocation of Sara Coleridge: Authorship and Religion|last=Schofield|first=Robin|date=12 February 2018|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783319703718|pages=6|language=en}} An archive of her collected works is held at the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Biography

Edith Coleridge was the daughter of writer Sara Coleridge, who in turn was the daughter of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Sara Coleridge married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, who was Samuel Taylor Coleridge's literary executor.{{Cite news|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1911/Obituary/Edith_Coleridge|title=Obituary|date=27 January 1911|work=The Times|access-date=7 October 2019|issue=39493|page=13}} Edith had a brother, Herbert Coleridge.

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