Arabella Shore

01 January 1822 - 01 January 1899

AS was a poet, translator, and occasional critic who died at the end of the nineteenth century. Like her sister Louisa Catherine , she was chiefly interested in public and national topics.

BirthName: Arabella Susanna Shore
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides the second name, Susanna.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Louisa Catherine Shore

Milestones

1822

AS was baptised and therefore presumably born this year, the middle one of three writing sisters in a family of five children.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under Louisa Catherine Shore

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

9 January 1901

AS died, having outlived both of her sisters.

Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.

1900

First and Last Poems by AS appeared, perhaps posthumously, under her full name.

Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards, 1900.

Biography

Birth and Family

1822

AS was baptised and therefore presumably born this year, the middle one of three writing sisters in a family of five children.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under Louisa Catherine Shore

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.