Undated children’s verse cards from Sara Coleridge collection. These verses—on such topics as English history, Latin vocabulary, and animals—formed the foundation for Coleridge’s “Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children and Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme,” published in 1834.

Read the full article “Sara Coleridge’s Pretty Lessons in Verse: Nineteenth- Century Flash Cards” on the Ransom Center’s blog, Cultural Compass.

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