Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 827119 210126396 2008-05-04T16:20:14Z NancePG 3310112 added link for Hubert Parry '''Mary Elizabeth Coleridge''' ([[23 September]], [[1861]] – [[25 August]], [[1907]]) was a [[United Kingdom| British]] [[novelist]] and [[poet]], who also wrote essays and reviews.<ref>[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mary_elizabeth_coleridge Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - Poems, Biography, Quotes<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907. She wrote poetry under the [[pseudonym]] [[Anodos]], taken from [[George MacDonald]]; other influences on her were [[Richard Watson Dixon]] and [[Christina Rossetti]]. Coleridge published five novels, the best known of those being ''The King with Two Faces'', which earned her £900 in royalties in 1897. She traveled widely throughout her life, although her home was in London, where she lived with her family. Her father was Arthur Duke Coleridge who, along with the singer [[Jenny Lind]], 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]]. Mary Coleridge was the great-grandniece niece of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and the great niece of [[Sara Coleridge]], the author of ''Phantasmion''. She died from complications arising from [[appendicitis]] while on holiday in [[Harrogate]] in 1907, leaving an unfinished manuscript for her next novel, and hundreds of unpublished poems. One of her poems, "The Blue Bird," was set to music by [[Charles Villiers Stanford]]. A family friend, the composer, [[Hubert Parry]] also set several of her poems to music. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth}} [[Category:1861 births]] [[Category:1907 deaths]] [[Category:English poets]] [[Category:Women poets]] [[Category:English novelists]] [[Category:Women novelists]] [[Category:English women writers]] [[nl:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]] == External links == {{Wikiquote}} {{Wikisource author}} * [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4017/index.html The Genealogy of Coleridge Family and Coleridge links]