Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. 1. Introduction: Sara Coleridge and the Politics of Literary Revision 1
7. 2. "Castles in the Air": Education, Romance, and the Beauty of the Soul 18
8. 3. "The House of Bondage": Marriage, Motherhood, and the Death of Coleridge 52
9. 4. "The Great Art": From Madness to Matriarchy 82
10. 5. "The Business of Life": Public Venerations, Private Redemptions 110
11. 6. "Putting in Order a Literary House": Last Rites and First Memories 143
12. 7. Postscript: "Child of Genius" 176
13. Appendix. The Essays of Sara Coleridge
14. On the Disadvantages Resulting from the Possession of Beauty 187
15. Nervousness 201
16. On Mr. Wordsworth's Poem Entitled "Lines Left on a Yew-tree Seat" 217
17. [On the British Constitution] 231
18. Reply to Strictures of Three Gentlemen upon Carlyle 236
19. Reasons for Not Placing "Laodamia" in the First Rank of Wordsworthian Poetry 245
20. [The Autobiography of Sara Coleridge] 249
21. Notes 267
22. Index 281