The Letters of Sara Hutchinson / Kathleen Coburn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coburn, Kathleen.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Note

List of Letters

Introduction

The Letters

Letters of Sara Hutchinson 1 - 51

Letters of Sara Hutchinson 51 - 106

Letters of Sara Hutchinson 107 - 169

Names of Persons, Houses, Places

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5296-9

OCLC:

992472326