Mary Colborne-Veel
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Mary Caroline Colborne-Veel (1861 – 22 February 1923)[1] was a New Zealand poet.
Colborne-Veel was born in Christchurch,[2] and was the daughter of Joseph Colborne-Veel.[3] She worked as a journalist for the Christchurch Press, and was a regular contributor to the New Zealand School Journal.[3] She published a volume of poetry, The fairest of the angels, and other verse, in 1894. She was a social reformer, and served as an official visitor to Te Oranga Home for Delinquent Girls at Burnham, and to women patients at Sunnyside Hospital.[3] In 1913, along with fellow poets Jessie Mackay and Blanche Baughan, she founded the Canterbury Women's Club.[4]
Colborne-Veel died in Sumner in 1923.[5] Following her death her poetry was collected in a posthumous collection by Jessie Mackay.[3]
