Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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Standard Name: Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth
Birth Name: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Pseudonym: Anodos
Used Form: M. E. Coleridge
MEC
published five novels, two collections of prose, and one work of biography during the later nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries. She also contributed essays and reviews to periodicals. By the end of her life, she had penned close to three hundred poems, both published (all under the pseudonym Anodos) and unpublished. Her essays and novels were well known and her poetry was admired by her fellow writers. Despite the popularity of her work its day, she is now largely unknown to readers, although mentioned occasionally in feminist criticism.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Preface”. Poems, edited by Henry Newbolt, Elkin Mathews, 1908, p. v - xii.
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Jackson, Vanessa Furse. “Breaking the Quiet Surface: The Shorter Poems of Mary Coleridge”. English Literature in Transition, No. 1, pp. 41 -62.
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ATR
and her sister were educated by a series of governesses in London. It was not until the arrival of Miss Truelock
in 1850 that their father was finally satisfied with a governess's ability...
Soon MC
was once again, as during the war, writing not for herself alone but for a group. Women Demobilized, July 1919 deals with women whose men have been killed. It ends: Now in our...
Intertextuality and Influence
Germaine Greer
The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot
Literary responses
Elizabeth Carter
Exactly a hundred years later there appeared an academic monograph by Alice Gaussen
which did justice to EC
's intellect and her historical significance. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, reviewing this book in the Times Literary...
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Rudyard Kipling
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, reviewing Puck of Pook's Hill for the Times Literary Supplement, saw Kipling as a realist who in later life had learned to represent the dreaminess of life. Though his Puck...
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Elizabeth Montagu
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, in a review of this book and of Alice Gaussen
's monograph on Elizabeth Carter
, used them to place the Bluestockings in relation to modern women's behaviour, but she was...
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George Paston
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, reviewing this book for the Times Literary Supplement, gave a good report of it and noted that it was written with discretion and a good deal of reticence.