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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, detail of an oil painting by Washington Allston, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his periodical, The Friend, from June 1809 until March 1810. He ceased publication when Sara Hutchinson, who had been serving as his amanuensis, found the strain of their relationship too difficult to manage and retired to her brotherâs farm in Wales.1