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Female Provenance: Emily Trevenen & Emily Grylls. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Friend: A Series of Essays in Three Volumes.
London: Printed for Rest Fenner, 1818.
Three octavo volumes, inscribed by Derwent Coleridge, July 27, 1856, presenting the volume to Emily M. Grylls, "as a last memorial from the library of her loving and beloved friend and relative," Emily Trevenen, with the latter's armorial bookplate in each volume; neatly bound in full period uniform calf, with gilt ruled boards and spines decorated and lettered in gilt, 7 1/8 x 4 1/4 in. (3)
Derwent Coleridge (1800-1856) was the poet's third son. Emily Trevenen (1784-1856) was part of the Coleridge circle. She was friends with Derwent's sister Sara, and god-mother to some of the Coleridge children. She also wrote poetry and published a book entitled, Little Derwent's Breakfast in 1839. She was closely connected to and corresponded with Bertha, Edith & Katharine Southey; Dora Wordsworth Quillinan; Mary Wordsworth; S.T. Coleridge and others. The two Emilys were first cousins. Trevenen's mother, Cordelia Grylls (1762-1810) was the sister of Emily Meliora Grylls's (1798-1877) father, Thomas Grylls (1760-1813).
