Biographia Borealis
Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns

Thirteen lives of distinguished northerners are described with characteristic warmth in this 1833 work by Hartley Coleridge.

Hartley Coleridge (Author)

9781108080088, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 February 2018

758 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.3 x 14 x 4.2 cm, 1.1 kg

Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), the eldest surviving son of the poet S. T. Coleridge, himself tried to earn a living as a writer and teacher, but his own disposition, the result of a difficult upbringing during which his frequently absent father used him as the subject of scientific and psychological research, made it difficult for him to function in the real world, and he relied for much of his life on the charity of friends for both income and home. This 1833 work on the 'lives of distinguished northerns' was originally commissioned by a publisher who subsequently went bankrupt, but the thirteen lives presented here - including Andrew Marvell, Anne Clifford, Richard Arkwright, and James Cook - are described with Coleridge's characteristic warmth. In his introduction, he makes a distinction between biography as part of public history and as personal, local or family history: these sketches definitely fall into the latter category.

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Introductory essay
Andrew Marvell
Richard Bentley
Thomas Lord Fairfax
James, seventh earl of Derby
Lady Anne Clifford
Roger Ascham
John Fisher
Rev. Wiliam Mason
Sir Richard Arkwright
William Roscoe
Captain Cook
William Congreve
Dr John Fothergill.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]