Up for auction "Poet" Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline S. Bridges) Hand Written 4 Page Letter Dated 1889.

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Pseudonym of Mary Ainge de Vere

(1844-1920). The daughter of Irish immigrants, she had her first poem published

in a New York daily newspaper at 14 years of age. Her verses appeared in

magazines including The Century, Harper’s, Frank Leslie’s,

Lippincott’s,, and Littell’s Living Age.

She also published squibs, jokes, dialogues, and light verse in Puck, Life, Judge, and the humorous columns of nearly all American

periodicals of the time. Her best-known serious poems include “The Quiet

House,” “The Brook,” “Life’s Mirror,” “We Two,” and “Good-bye, Sweetheart.”  Mary Ainge De Vere resided in Brooklyn her

whole life.