Maria Elizabeth Robinson was the only daughter of Mary Darby Robinson, a celebrated poet and playwright in her time, and Thomas Robinson.

She was born in 1774. Little is known of her life though her works survives. She married John Blakey and had one daughter, Lydia.

Maria Elizabeth Blakey died in 1818 at the age of 44.

This volume of her verse includes others from such notables as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.