E. Katharine Dooris Sharp (1846–1935) was an American

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, poet, and suffragist. She was the author of ''Summer in a Bog''.

Biography

Emily Katharine Dooris was born in Ulster, Ireland and raised in Zanesville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Margaret (Dejoynstyn) and John Dooris. She married Henry James Sharp, a medical doctor, around 1872. The couple lived in

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, where Sharp became interested in botany. She contributed more than 400 specimens to the State Herbarium of Ohio during the period of 1899-1906. One of these, ''Armoracia aquatica'', was rare to the area. Sharp began her writing career with a volume of poems, ''Eleanor's Courtship and The Songs that Sang Themselves'', published in 1888. She also wrote fiction and non-fiction. Sharp supported women's suffrage and wrote a series of articles, entitled "Women and the Elective Franchise," in a local newspaper around 1894.

Partial bibliography

* ''Eleanor's Courtship and The Songs that Sang Themselves.'' Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1888. * ''The South Ward.'' Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe; New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1891. * ''The Doctor's Speaking Tube and other poems''. Boston: Badger, 1904. * ''Summer in a Bog''. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1913. * "Our National Flower," ''Science'', 47 (1225), June 21, 1918. p. 611-12. * Freeman, Ralph. Searching For Sgt Dorris (p337-338), Apple Tree Press, Belfast, 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, Katharine Dooris American women botanists American botanists American women poets 1846 births 1935 deaths