Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter (16 August 1866 – 6 January 1918) was an Irish poet and

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, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.

Life

She was born in

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, the daughter of

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, a

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and writer, and Hester Varian, also a writer. She was the oldest of four

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ren. The family home at 3 Clare Street was a gathering-place for artists and writers where Dora met important figures of the emerging Irish literary revival. She attended the Dublin School of Art, where W.B. Yeats was a fellow-pupil. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her sister Hester Sigerson Piatt was also a writer. Her friends included Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh and Alice Furlong, writers and poets. In 1895 she married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and

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. They lived together in

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, until her death at age 51 from undisclosed causes. Her friend Katharine Tynan wrote in a biographical sketch that she supposedly ‘died of a broken heart’ after the 1916 executions.

Selected publications

''The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems''
London & New York: John Lane 1897.
''The Father Confessor, Stories of Death and Danger''
London: Ward Lock & Co 1900.
''The Story and Song of Black Roderick''
London: Alexander Moring 1906. * ''The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter''; with an introduction by George Meredith. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. * ''New Poems''. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1912 (3rd ed., 1921). * ''Madge Linsey, and other poems''. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1913.

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