author
Mary Sturgeon
d. 1925
A lively early-20th-century critic and biographer, this English writer explored poetry, classical women, and the literary partnership behind Michael Field. Her career was cut short in 1925 when she died at sea while returning to England.
3 Audiobooks
Michael Field
by Mary Sturgeon
Women of the Classics
by Mary Sturgeon
Studies of Contemporary Poets
by Mary Sturgeon
About the author
Mary C. Sturgeon was an English author and literary critic whose books ranged across poetry, biography, and cultural history. Her better-known works include Women of the Classics (1914), Studies of Contemporary Poets (1916), Westminster Abbey: Its Memories and Its Message (1921), and Michael Field (1922).
Her writing shows a strong interest in literature and the lives behind it. In particular, she helped introduce readers to the work of "Michael Field," the shared pen name of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, by writing one of the early book-length studies of the pair.
Records and contemporary notices suggest that Sturgeon was active as an author and biographer in the early 1920s. She died in April 1925 after going overboard from the Moreton Bay during a voyage from Australia, and reports at the time said she was buried at sea.