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.
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| Born | 16 August 1866 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 6 January 1918 (aged 51) |
| Pen name | Dora Sigerson Shorter |
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| Nationality | Irish |
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| Parents | George Sigerson Hester Varian |
Life
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester Varian, also a writer. She was the oldest of four children.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] Her friend Katharine Tynan wrote in a biographical sketch that she supposedly ‘died of a broken heart’ after the 1916 executions.[6]
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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