The vocation of Sara Coleridge: authorship and religion

This volume presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge.

It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics.

Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of such major figures as John Henry Newman and F.D.

Maurice and recognised as such by contemporaries. Her strategic negotiations with conventions of gender and authorship were subtle and successful.

In this rediscovery of Sara Coleridge the author revises perspectives upon her literary relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.