Wonderously beautiful… but mystical rather and enigmatic.
Great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was born in London in 1861 and is decended from good poetic stock. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sara Coleridge were amongst her ancestors. Her parents were great followers of the arts and Mary grew up in the company of some of the greatest writers of her day. Tennyson, Ruskin, Kemble, Holman Hunt, Millais and Browning to name jsut a few.