Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds, and Isobel Armstrong and Joseph Bristow. Heather Braun contributed a substantial introduction to a reprint of her final published novel, The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor (with selected poetry and prose) in 2018. Musical settings The relative simplicity of Mary Coleridge's lyrical poetry, combined with its touch of mysticism and strong imagery, proved congenial to composers. Both Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford were friends of Mary's father, and frequent visitors to the family home at 12, Cromwell Place, South Kensington. Parry set seven of her poems as songs for voice and piano in his English Lyrics, Ninth Set, published in 1909. In the opinion of Trevor Hold, "no-one set her more sympathetically than Parry." Stanford composed two sets of eight choral partsongs, Op. 119 and Op. 127 (both 1910). By far the best known of these (and of any Coleridge setting) is "The Blue Bird", from Mary's poem originally published in 1897 under the French title "L'Oiseau Bleu". Other settings include several by John Ireland and Roger Quilter, three poems (including "Thy Hand in Mine") by Frank Bridge, and the Four Dramatic Songs, Op. 44 for solo voice and orchestra by Cyril Rootham (1913 - later also arranged for voice and piano). William Busch set "L'Oiseau Bleu" in a German translation as "Der blaue Vogel" (1944). Published works Collection of poems. Republished as Collection of poems, including eleven repeated from Fancy's Following. Collection of brief essays. Posthumous, with an introduction by Henry Newbolt. Posthumous study of the eponymous artist. The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge, ed. Theresa Whistler. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954 The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Heather Braun. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018. References External links Performance of "The Blue Bird", Charles Villiers Stanford, by the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Place of birth missing 1861 births 1907 deaths Mary Elizabeth English women poets English women novelists Victorian women writers Victorian poets 19th-century English women writers 19th-century English novelists 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 19th-century English poets 20th-century English poets