Madeline Bridges

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.

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