Mary Maria Colling

(1804-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Colling, Mary Maria (1804–1853), poet and domestic servant LBT ID: MaColli1853	B/BAP: 1804-08-20 DIED: 1853-08-06
SOURCES: DNB
Born in Tavistock, Devon, she was a domestic servant and poet patronised by Anna Eliza Bray and Robert Southey.
REFERENCES TO Mary Maria Colling: Robert Southey to James White, 6 February 1832 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to William Lisle Bowles, 30 June 1832 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Katharine Southey, 1 January 1837 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXV. 1832-1834 Ch. XXXVII. 1836-1837 Found 1: ¶ 13