Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Born on May 25, 1843, Christabel Rose Coleridge was an English novelist and editor. She was the daughter of Derwent Coleridge and a granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which placed her in a well-known literary family.

She is best remembered for writing novels and for editing girls’ magazines, sometimes working with the novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge. Her fiction and editorial work were aimed largely at younger female readers, and biographical sources consistently describe her views on women’s roles as conservative.

Coleridge died on November 14, 1921. Although she is not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, she remains a notable figure in Victorian religious and domestic fiction and in the history of periodicals for girls.