Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, probably a combination of Christ + Belle.
Wikipedia
Christabel is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, but on the advice of William Wordsworth it was left out; the exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability to finish it, left Coleridge in doubt about his poetical power. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep.
Coleridge aimed to write Christabel using an accentual metrical system, based on the count of only accents: even though the number of syllables in each line can vary from four to twelve, the number of accents per line never deviates from four.
Christabel is a five-part British drama series first shown on BBC1 between 16 November and 17 December 1988.
It is based on the memoirs of Christabel Bielenberg, an English woman married to a German lawyer during World War II. The screenplay was written by Dennis Potter, and was directed by Adrian Shergold. Each episode runs around 65 minutes. It stars Elizabeth Hurley in the lead role (in one of her earliest leading roles).
Christabel may refer to:
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Christabel (poem), lengthy poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Christabel (film), 2001 experimental feature by James Fotopoulos based on the poem
- Christabel, a 1998 lesbian Gothic romance novel by Karin Kallmaker inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem
- Christabel (TV series), 1988 five-part British drama series
- Christabel LaMotte, fictional character in the novel Possession: A Romance
- Lake Christabel, small lake of New Zealand
- 2695 Christabel (1979 UE), a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1979
- USS Christabel (SP-162), United States Navy patrol vessel of World War I
People named Christabel:
- Christabel Baxendale (1886–1953), English violinist and composer
- Christabel Bielenberg (1909–2003), Anglo-Irish-German non-fiction writer
- Christabel Chamarette (born 1948), Greens Western Australia Senator for Western Australia
- Christabel Cockerell (1860–1903), British artist, wife of Sir George Frampton
- Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), English novelist
- Christabel Marshall (1871–1960), British campaigner for women's suffrage, a playwright and author
- Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958), British suffragette
- Christabel Elizabeth Robinson MBE (1898–1988), New Zealand teacher, vocational guidance and community worker
People with Christabel in their middle names
- Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, aunt of Elizabeth II
- Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy, cousin of Elizabeth II
Category:Given names
Christabel is a 2001 avante garde experimental film directed by James Fotopoulos and based on the unfinished poem of the same name by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Usage examples of "christabel".
I suppose it will be in due course once his Christabel gets started on a family.
And he led the way back along the narrow path with Prudence behind him and Christabel at the back.
Wesley was poking peevishly at her bread and butter and Christabel was uttering an angry laugh.
He waited patiently while she bade his mother goodbye, kissed his parent and drove Christabel away.
That Christabel girl came in at tea time with Haso--far too thin and quite shrewish.
Leeuwarden, and if he wanted to make his way in the medical world, then Christabel was going to be of no use to him, bleating on about the ballet and expecting him to be at her beck and call.
She disliked Christabel too, but she found it in her heart to be sorry for the girl.
There was no sign of Haso the next day, although Christabel arrived during the afternoon.
Prudence smiled kindly at the somewhat discomfited Christabel, feeling that she had at least kept up her own end.
Two days later there was another visitor Christabel, a cool, chic vision in white, laden with grapes and hot-house flowers and a pile of magazines.
They glared angrily at each other before Christabel turned on her heel and walked out to her car.
There had hardly been time for him to have seen Christabel, but she had a nasty feeling that that was why he wanted to see her.
I saw Christabel this evening, for only a few minutes, but she was very upset at your rudeness this afternoon.
Besides, if she went away, there was a better chance of her patient and Christabel becoming friends.
Sebeltsje and Prince for a walk in the grounds, to find when they returned that Christabel was there, sitting by Mevrouw ter Brons Huizinga, regaling her with an account of a concert she had been to on the previous evening.