Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

One of the most important British Romantic period writers and a mesmerizing conversationalist and lecturer, Coleridge authored poetry, plays, criticism, journalism, and philosophical works. His most important poetic works include Poems on Various Subjects (1796), Fears in Solitude (1798), Lyrical Ballads (with William Wordsworth, 1798), Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816), and Sibylline Leaves (1817). His plays include The Fall of Robespierre (with Robert Southey 1794) and Remorse (1813).

Colburn, Henry, d. 1855

Particularly known as a fiction publisher, Colburn was widely accused of "puffing" these works in the various literary periodicals he also published, among them the New Monthly Magazine, the Literary Gazette, the Athenaeum (very briefly), the Court Journal, and the United Service Journal.

Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae

According to The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra was enraged when her husband and king of Mycenae Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to propitiate the gods and gain favorable winds to sail to Troy to make war. On Agamemnon's return from the siege of Troy, Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus killed him.

Cléry, M., 1759-1809

Jean Baptiste Cléry, the personal cameriere (valet) of King Louis XVI during his imprisonment, published his journal of the revolution, Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, in 1798. It contained a moving account of the king's treatment at the hands of the revolutionary government and his last farewell to his family before his death. and

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.

The prototypic romantic femme fatal, Cleopatra VII Philopator was the lover of Julius Caesar, later wife of Mark Antony, and final ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. After the assassination of Caesar, Cleopatra allied herself with the Second Triumvirate, whose foremost members were Antony and Octavian. Cleopatra and Antony began their love affair while Antony remained married to Octavian's sister, Octavia, and Antony became heavily reliant on Cleopatra as a source of funding and military aid.