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Estlin, a Unitarian minister. Coleridge, who preached to Estlin's
congregation, considered accepting a Unitarian pulpit as one way
of propagating the truth and feeding his children. Mrs. Coleridge
 

S. T. Coleridge. From a pastel portrait probabh- done
at Gijttingen in 1799.

lacked her husband's subtlety, but she would have understood, as
a family joke, the disadvantage of resembling Estlin's son Alfred.
At the end of 1799 Wordsworth and his sister had returned to
the Lake District and rented Dove Cottage, Grasmere; in July
1800 Coleridge had brought his own family to Keswick, fifteen
miles away. Aided in their search by Dorothy, the Coleridges had
rented Greta Hall, a commodious handsome house with magnifi¬
cent vistas into "mountains, and lakes, and woods and vales"—in