Poet. Also known as May. Father was William Daniel Kelly, from Castlepark, Co. Roscommon.
Husband was Major Gorges, an East India Company officer. Died in Kingstown, near Dublin.
Contributed poems to *Irish Monthly*. Author of *A Twelfth Night King. [A Tale]* (1897),
*Killarney* (1912), *On Life’s Journey: Poems and Ballads* (1916). *Chambers’s Journal*
ledger entry for Gorge’s poem “Waiting for May,” published on 22 March 1890, lists
her as Miss M. Gorges, of 15 Royal Terrace, Kingstown, Ireland (NLS Dep 341/370).
Biographical information: D. J. O’Donoghue, *The Poets of Ireland*, Hodges Figgis
& Co., 1912, p. 165; Colman 129. (AC)