Lovell introduced the two poets to their patron Joseph Cottle, and shortly Coleridge was betrothed to a third sister, Sara Fricker, whom he married on 4 October 1795.
[2][1] The three young men were at that time occupied with the project for their pantisocratic colony on the banks of the Susquehanna River, to which Lovell was to have brought not only his wife but his brother and two sisters.
Lovell's father refused all help to his daughter-in-law Mary on the grounds of her having been an actress, and she and her infant son turned to Southey for support.
[2] The Bristoliad was a satire in Charles Churchill's style, and indicates that Lovell was ill at ease in the commercial atmosphere of Bristol.
After Lovell's death, Southey tried — and failed — to produce a subscription edition of his poems, to raise money for his widow and child.