For a critical assessment of Mary Steeles poetry, read the Introduction below and the introductory remarks for Danebury and her friendship poems below. For information on Mary Steele's life, click here; for selections from her letters, click here; for her spiritual autobiography, click here; for the two poems dedicated to Mary Steele on becoming a woman poet, composed by her aunt, Mary Steele Wakeford, in 1769, click here.