Dora Sigerson Shorter

Dora Sigerson

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter (16 August 1866 – 6 January 1918)^[1] was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.

Life

She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester (née Varian), also a writer. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her friends included Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh and Alice Furlong, writers and poets.^[2]

In 1895 she married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and literary critic. They lived together in London, until her death at age 51 from undisclosed causes.^[3]

Select works

• The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems London & NY: J Lane 1897
• The Story and Song of Black Roderick London: Alex. Moring 1906

References

1. "Dora Sigerson Shorter". All Poetry. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
2. Curran, C.P. (1970). Under the Receding Wave. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-7171-0276-1.
3. Shorter, Aylward (2003). The Shorter Family. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-2293-6.

External links

• Works related to Dora Sigerson Shorter at Wikisource
• Media related to Dora Sigerson Shorter at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by Dora Sigerson Shorter at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Dora Sigerson Shorter at Internet Archive
• Works by Dora Sigerson Shorter at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)