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

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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 Hester Varian (1828 – 15 April 1898) was an Irish poet and novelist. Biography Hester Varian was born in Cork in 1828. Her father was Amos Varian. In 1865 she married George Sigerson. They had four children. Hester, Dora, William and Georg ...

, also a writer. She was the oldest of 4

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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

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, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her sister

Hester Sigerson Piatt Hester Sigerson Piatt (13 June 1870 – 16 June 1939), was an Irish poet and republican journalist. Life Piatt was born Anna Hester Sigerson, known to family as Hetty, in Dublin to Hester Varian and George Sigerson. Her father was a doctor, po ...

was also a writer. Her friends included

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and

Alice Furlong Alice Furlong (26 November 1866 – 1946) was an Irish writer, poet and political activist who also worked on Irish publications with Douglas Hyde (later President of Ireland). Life She was born at Old Bawn, near Tallaght, County Dublin, the ...

, writers and poets. In 1895 she married

Clement King Shorter Clement King Shorter (19 July 1857 – 19 November 1926) was a British journalist and literary critic. After editing the ''Illustrated London News'', Shorter founded and edited ''Sketch'', ''The Sphere'', and ''Tatler''. Biography Clement Sho ...

, an

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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 Story and Song of Black Roderick''
London: Alexander Moring 1906. * ''The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter''; with an introduction by

George Meredith George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist. ''The Ord ...

. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. * ''New Poems''. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1912 (3rd ed., 1921). * ''Madge Linsey, and other poems''. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1913.

References

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