Emily TREVENEN
- Christened: 20 Jun 1786, Cardinham, Cornwall 1
- Buried: 25 Jul 1856, Helston, Cornwall 2
General Notes:
See attached sources.
Research Notes:
Wrote a small volume of poetry, "Little Derwent's Breakfast," for her godson, Derwent Moultrie Coleridge, published 1839.
"Ideology is externalised in food.... Consider Little Derwent's Breakfast (1839), addressed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's seven-year-old grandson. Written by Emily Trevenen, an acquaintenance of William Wordsworth, and friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, it is an educational poem in the sense that education is an externalised form of ideology.... Trevenen does not merely exhort Derwent Coleridge to behave like a little gentleman at the breakfast table, though it is an ideal scene of instruction in manners. She also provides lessons on the commercial origins of sugar, exotically illustrated by the idyllic fantasy realms of the West Indies, China and Arabia. She furnishes a homily on class relations entitled 'The Rivals; or, Sugar and Salt'. The presence at table of both condiments provides an opportunity for a quarrel and reconcilation (by 'Nature') between the bourgeoisie (in the form of sugar) and the working class (in the form of salt)..."
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1841 England Census:
Age given: 55 years
Birthplace: Cornwall
Dwelling Place: Cross St., Helston, Cornwall
Occupation: Ind[ependent Means]
4 servants
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Died aged 70 years.
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