 | 1. Text from
The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans
(London: Chandos Classics, n.d.), 407.
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| 2.
Memoir of Mrs. Hemans,
by her sister (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839), 153.
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| 3. The first two quotations are from an anonymous poem, "Weep not for her," in
The Recognition of Friends in Heaven,
by the Bishop of Ripon and others (London: 1866), the third from "A Dirge" by Felicia Hemans, 435.
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| 4. "On an Infant which died before Baptism",
Poems
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935), 312. Other Coleridge poems are taken from the same edition.
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| 5. Sara Coleridge to her husband, 1 Nov. 1798. Text of Sara's letters, and that of Poole, taken from Molly Lefebure,
The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1986).
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| 6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Select Letters,
ed. H. J Jackson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 72.
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| 7. Philippe Ariès,
The Hour of our Death
(Baltimore: Penguin, 1983), 471.
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| 8. Rev. Norman MacLeod, "Social Life in Heaven," in
The Recognition of Friends in Heaven.
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| 9. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
The Gates Ajar
(Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870).
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| 10. In Britain, for example, it was contemptuously dismissed "by a Dean" in
The Gates Ajar Critically Examined
(London: Hatchards, 1871).
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| 11. Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang,
Heaven: a History
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988).
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| 12. Ariès, 471, 536ff.
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