Mary Herbert

Mary Eliza Herbert (1829–1872) was a Canadian publisher and poet. She published and managed the Mayflower, or Ladies' Acadian Newspaper in 1851, making her the first female newspaper publisher in Nova Scotia. Biography Herbert was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1829 to Irish immigrant parents Catherine and Nicholas Michael Herbert. She began writing at a young age, following in the footsteps of her older half-sister Sarah Herbert. Herbert also had four younger siblings, Catherine Anne (b. 1831), John Otway Cuffe (b. 1833), Nicholas Livingston (b. 1836), and William Black (b. 1838). Herbert was active in the Wesleyan Methodist evangelical group and the temperance movement. Herbert was a member of the Benevolent Society and the Temperance Society. Herbert died in at her father's home in Halifax on July 15, 1872 after a long illness of "chronic gastroses" which was likely tuberculosis.