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The Letters of Sara Hutchinson
Paperback
Series: Heritage
Letters & EssaysFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9781442639270
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1954
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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