Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918). Portrait by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941). Courtesy Find a Grave.
Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918) was an Irish poet.
Life[]
Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918), from The Tricolour, 1922. Courtesy Internet Archive.
Shorter was born Dora Sigerson in Dublin, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester (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.[1]
In 1895 she married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and literary critic. They lived together in London, until her death.[2]
She wrote the poem "Sixteen Dead Men" to commemorate the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, and also designed the 1916 memorial in Glasnevin cemetery.[3]
Recognition[]
Her poem "Ireland" was included in the Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900.[4]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Verses. London: Elliot Stock, 1893.
- The Fairy Changeling, and other poems. London & New York: John Lane, 1897.
- Ballads and Poems. London: J. Bowden, 1899.
- My Lady's Slipper and other verses. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899.
- The Woman who Went to Hell, and other ballads and lyrics. London: De La More Press, [1902?]
- As the Sparks Fly Upwards: Poems and ballads. London: A. Moring, De La More Press, 1903.
- The Story and Song of Black Roderick. London: A. Moring 1906.
- Collected Poems. London: Hodder and Stoughton; New York: Harper, 1907.
- The Troubadour, and other poems. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
- Madge Linsey, and other poems. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1913.
- Love of Ireland: Poems and ballads. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1916.
- Kittie's Toys. Dublin: Gaelic Press, 1917.
- The Sad Years. New York: George H. Doran, 1918.
- A Legend of Glendalough, and other ballads. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1919.
- Sixteen Dead Men, and other poems of Easter week. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1919.
- A Dull Day in London. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1920.
- New Poems. Dublin: Maunsel, 1921.
- The Tricolour: Poems of the Irish revolution. Dublin: Maunsel & Roberts, 1922.
- Dora Sigerson Shorter. London: Ernest Benn, 1932.
Novels[]
- The Country-house Party. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905.
- Through Wintry Terrors. London, New York: Cassell, 1907.
Short fiction[]
- The Father-Confessor: Stories of death and danger. London & New York: Ward, Lock, 1900.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Worldcat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Curran, C. P. (1970). Under the Receding Wave. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. ISBN 7171-0276-9.
- ↑ Shorter, Aylward (2003). The Shorter Family. Bowie: Heritage Books. ISBN 0788422936.
- ↑ Dora Sigerson Shorter, Dublin City Council. Web, Mar. 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Ireland," Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch), Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1919. Bartleby.com, Web, May 6, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Dora Sigerson, WorldCat, Web, July 28, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Ireland".
- "I Am the World"
- "The Spinning Wheel"
- "All Soul's Night" in A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
- "A Bird from the West," Poem of the Week at The Guardian
- Shorter in A Book of Women's Verse: "Sixteen Dead Men," "Ireland"
- Dora Sigerson Shorter at Public Domain Poetry (52 poems)
- Dora Sigerson Shorter at PoemHunter (288 poems)
- Dora Sigerson Shorter at AllPoetry (290 poems)
- Prose
- "All Soul's Eve" (story)
- Books
- Works by Dora Sigerson Shorter at Project Gutenberg
- Dora Sigerson Shorter at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Audio / video
- "The Fetch" from LibriVox
- Dora Sigerson Shorter at YouTube
- About
- Dora Sigerson Shorter in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
- Dora Sigerson Dora Sigerson Shorter, Poet & Sculptor, 1866-1918 at Over thy Dead Body weblog.
- Dora Sigerson Shorter at Ricorso
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