Surname: Rogers Forename(s): Mary Eliza b. 1 May 1827. d. 18 February 1910. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, travel writer, wood carver, and designer. Pseudonym: “M. E.” Daughter of the
wood carver William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875), who was sculptor in wood to Queen Victoria.
Contributor to periodicals such as Art Journal and Sharpe’s. Author of the poetry volume My Vis-à-Vis; or, Harry’s Account of His Courtship, and Other Poems (1865), and a travelogue Domestic Life in Palestine (1862), written while visiting her brother, Edward Thomas Rogers, in 1855 to 1862,
while he was vice-consul in Haifa. Biographical information: Lohrli 415; “Mary Eliza
Rogers,” Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951,
University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database, 2011 <https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1400512394>
(12 June 2020). (AC)