SOURCE: A review of Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, in The Spectator, Vol. 105, No. 4, 279 July 2, 1910, pp. 20-1.

In the following review, the critic praises the posthumous collection of letters, diary entries, stories, essays, and poems by Coleridge.

This book [Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge] is something more than an act of pious homage to a rare, gracious, and gifted woman. Mary Coleridge's talents as a writer of exquisite, if unequal, fiction and of verse of true poetic quality have already been acknowledged. Her claims to abiding recognition are now enhanced by extracts from her correspondence, which prove her to have been a letter-writer of the first rank. But before we deal with the new matter in this volume a few words must be said of Miss Sichel's Memoir. Her task was by no means easy, but she has succeeded to...