Biography coleridge elizabeth mary
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth
COLERIDGE, MARY ELIZABETH (1861–1907), poet, novelist and essayist, born at Hyde Park Square, London, on 23 Sept. 1861, was daughter of Arthur Duke Coleridge, clerk of the crown on the midland circuit. Her grandfather, Francis George Coleridge (1794-1854), was son of James Coleridge (1759-1836), elder brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet. Her mother was Mary Anne, eldest daughter of James Jameson of Montrose, Donnybrook, Dublin. Mary Coleridge was educated at home and early showed signs of literary gifts. As a child she wrote verse of individual quality and stories of mystical romance. Her father's friend, William Johnson Cory [q. v. Suppl. I], taught her and influenced her development. At twenty she began to write essays for the 'Monthly Packet,' 'Merry England,' and other periodicals. In 1893 appeared her first novel, 'The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus,' a fantastic romance praised by R. L.
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Mary Coleridge
British writer (1861–1907)
Mary Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews.[1] She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (a name taken from George MacDonald). Other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, described her poems as 'wondrously beautiful… but mystical rather than enigmatical'.[2]
Biography
[edit]Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was born in Hyde Park Square, London,[3] the daughter of Arthur Duke Coleridge, who was a lawyer and influential amateur musician. With the singer Jenny Lind, her father was responsible for the formation of the London Bach Choir in 1875. Other family friends included Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Millais and Fanny Kemble. She was the great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the great niece of Sara Coleridge, the author of Phantasmion.
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Intellectually gifted Mary Coleridge was the great-grand-niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Her parents were impressively well connected to writers and musicians in the London of the gods half of the nineteenth century.
Mary met weekly with friends in the late 1880s to discuss literature and to read their own creative work. She had already managed to place reviews and essays in various journals before her first novel,The sju Sleepers of Ephesus, was published. Set in Germany, it fryst vatten a tale full of secret societies, romance and disguise and was generally well received, as were her other historical adventure novels. She wrote poetry throughout her life, and her collectionFancy’s Following was published in 1896.
A committed Christian, Coleridge taught literature to ung women at the Working Women’s College for several years. She died after contracting blood poisoning following an operation to remove her appendix.
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