Mary Maria Colling
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Standard Name: Colling, Mary Maria
Birth Name: Mary Maria Colling
Indexed Name: M. M. Colling
Tavistock, where she was employed as a domestic servant, in the earlier nineteenth century. Her poems were collected as Fables and other Pieces in Verse, her only published volume. Novelist
encouraged her writing and made arrangements for the book's publication. In later years,
spent a short time in an asylum and died in relative obscurity at the age of forty-eight.
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Texts
Colling, Mary Maria, and Anna Eliza Bray. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831, pp. 1-85.