Mary Ainge De Vere

Mary Ainge De Vere, who wrote under the pen-name “Madeline Bridges”, was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1840s. She lived in Brooklyn and contributed verse to the Galaxy, the Century, the Independent, Life and many other periodicals.

Her books include Love Songs, and Other Poems (1870) and Poems (1890). Edmund Clarence Stedman printed nine of her lyrics in An American Anthology (1900).