Sara Coleridge (1802-1852): Youngest child and only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sarah Fricker; and Southey’s niece. Translator, writer and indefatigable editor of her father’s works. Sara Coleridge grew up at Greta Hall; her father was absent for most of her childhood, and she was mainly educated by Southey, her mother and her aunt, Mary Lovell. She showed an early talent for languages, becoming a fluent reader of Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Her first publication was a translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer’s History of the Abipones (1822), a project that was originally intended to be a joint work with her brother, Derwent Coleridge, and which Southey had first suggested. Sara Coleridge undertook a prolonged tour of family and friends in her mother’s company in 1822–1823 and became secretly engaged to her first cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge. The couple finally married in 1829, moving to first Hampstead and then Chester Place, Regent’s Park. Sara Coleridge’s health had never been robust, and she suffered a number of miscarriages; only two of her children, Herbert (1830–1861) and Edith (1832–1911) survived. With Henry Nelson Coleridge, who died in 1843, she began editing her father’s collected works, though she is better known today for her own writings, especially Phantasmion, A Fairy Tale (1837).