English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.

Mew gained the patronage of several literary figures, notably Thomas Hardy, who called her the best woman poet of her day, Virginia Woolf, who said she was "very good and interesting and quite unlike anyone else", and Siegfried Sassoon. She obtained a Civil List pension of seventy-five pounds per year with the aid of Cockerell, Hardy, John Masefield and Walter de la Mare. This helped ease her financial difficulties.

Charlotte Mary Mew was born in London on November 15th 1869. AS a poet she was well regarded by Both Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon. She was haunted by unrequited passion and tormented with fear of madness. She lived her life mainly in states of poverty and despair, she was recognised by Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf and Marianne Moore (25 years after her death) as a great poet. She took her own life on March 24th 1928