The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-26
MRS. ). A. GEORGE RETELLS LIVES OF
 LITERARY WOMAN
Sarah Coleridge and Mary Lamb Subjects of Last
 Lecture In Course

The series of three lectures which Mrs J. A, George has given under he auspices of the Bridgeport Fresh Air Association were concluded yesterday by her talk at the home of Mrs. D. M. Trecartin, of Brooklawn park, on Sara co1erfdge and Mary Lamb.
 Those who have attended the three lectures have greatly enjoyed the de- Hghtful insikhts which have been giv- en them of the literary women of the early nineteenth century.
 Sara Coleridge. while she is seldom character who possessed a quaint wit which has beoolne tradition. She was the daughter or Samuel Taylor Cole ridge and, while she was never long under her fathers influence, she was his most loyal friend.
 If Is well known that her mother and father did not agree and lived apart the greater part of their mar rfed life Sara's Bir1hood was dark ened by the clcud of her father and mothers separated lives, but her own marriage to her first cousin, Henry Nelson Coler1dge prcved most happy event which developed many interest," ing phases of her personality which hmd been rather check ed in her prev fouH 1fke-
 while Sara Coleridge was a very we'll educated and very brilliant wo- man she was not in any way 2. blue stocking" and Charles Lamb has said ,f her that ssTou might live with her f1r life time and not know that she. knew any other language but her own
 She had a very vivid ina aginat ton and wrote a number of fairy tales and other fnncffu1 stories but her nest intsresfinr contrfbution to 1iterature has bean her letters which were com pi1ed by her own dauz hter-
 Mrs George read a number of se-s Iaet4ons from these showing the sp1en did. Woman1y character of the writer, her charm. and her delightful wit brilliant mind
 She lost her lover husband when she was in her fortieth year and she speaks in one of her letters of "euiti- r6tinE my cheerfulness since my vridoWhood as never before, because she realized that she was bringing up -zrrne children whose lives must not be e1ouded by the sight of her tears
 She was a woman of great sweet ness who was much beloved by az who knew herk Considerfng the fa.cr thnf she and her father were never very intimately associated. the simi- lsr1fy cf their minds was really re- rz1srkab1e-
 me story of Charles and Mary 1lhanb. while by far the saddest of this tAEE4& KEDlW C4 At<7s@ky27 " e@s >ss7A tatn1y the most touching because of the great devotion displayed-
 The sister was ten years the senior of her brother and. when the young pbet was b1f go and she &C., she sud- denly lost her reascn and in d fit of violent insanity killed their mother. zn the. presence of her father and hrother-
 me young man took upon himself the care of his sister. Their life to. refher was continually overshs dowed bs the sisters always more freauent- iy recurring attseks of mania Their ch4erfuiness however overcame their difficulties, and their unfagking devo- tl0n to each other was very ss.d and very reauftfu1.
 Their life together continued thus for more than forty years. Charles Lamb never u1arried because of this devcf1on to hdE sister. Il
 Charles Lamb died within five| weeks of the demise of his life long fr1end. saznus1 T. Co1eridgel Mary survived her brother for nearly 1S #emrz, attaining the age of S2 years. The 1mst years of her life were spent 1 under the continual cloud of lost req
 Most Of sLamb's Tales of sha1zes- unare, which are 90 muchI owed by | ch11uren, were written by Mary Lamb 1
 In spite of her terrible a3fiction, | she was an az1iab1e and admirable | woman who shared her brother's 1 north1esf thoughts and wikh whom, as l h1a best hfoNzapher naTEs sHe lived a I life of dnal 1oneftneAs.'