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Coleridge in Love
Posted by: Bethany Askew
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English Romantic poets, Hartley Coleridge, National Trust Coleridge Cottage, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Coleridge, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth
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July 3, 2016 |
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Coleridge in Love
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, literary critic and philosopher was born in Ottery St Mary in Devon in 1772. He was a man of huge intellect and many talents. With his energetic enthusiasm, magnetic personality and copious charm, he was attractive to men and women alike. His was a complex character, given to marvellous sweeping ideas, flights of fancy and projects he started and often failed to finish. Nowadays we might consider him to be bi-polar. He was unreliable, unable to keep to deadlines and always ready with an excuse. It is well-known he was also an addictive...Read More
The Quantock Connection
Posted by: Bethany Askew
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Charles Lamb, Chartwell House, Churchill, Coleridge Cottage, Dorothy Wordsworth, Joseph Cottle, Josiah Wedgewood, National Trust, Nether Stowey, Quantock hills, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Somerset, Tom Poole, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth
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April 6, 2014 |
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The Quantock Connection
Last week we did our first stint as National Trust Volunteer Room Guides in Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey. The idea of being Room Guides evolved gradually. We visited Chartwell House, Churchill’s home, when we were staying with my brother in Sussex and the Room Guides were so helpful and knowledgeable...Read More
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Bethany Askew is the author of eight novels:
The Time Before, The World Within, Out of Step, Counting the Days, Poppy’s Seed, Three Extraordinary Years,The Two Saras and I know you, Don’t I?
She has also written a short story, The Night of the Storm, and she writes poetry.
Two more women’s fiction books have been accepted for publication in 2020 and 2021 respectively and she is currently working on a new novel.
In her spare time she enjoys reading, music, theatre, walking, Pilates, dancing and voluntary work.
Bethany is married and lives in Somerset.
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