Margaret Emily Shore

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Standard Name: Shore, Margaret Emily
Birth Name: Margaret Emily Shore
Used Form: Emily Shore
MES , who died in her twentieth year in 1839, became known for precocious writing in several genres: poetry, short fiction, science writing, and—the best-known of her works and almost all that survives—the diary of her formative years marked by the onset and progress of tuberculosis.

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Textual Production Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS probably began writing at an early age, like her short-lived elder sister Margaret Emily , who was publishing in her teens. But after Margaret Emily's premature death of tuberculosis, the surviving sisters were advised...
Textual Features Louisa Catherine Shore
This was their final collaboration before Louisa's death. Elegies, the opening poem of this 53-page volume, was her response to the deaths of her sister and brother .
Family and Intimate relationships Arabella Shore
Of her sisters the elder, Emily , died of tuberculosis at only nineteen, leaving an astonishing body of written work in manuscript; the younger, Louisa , became a proto-feminist writer and a regular contributor to...
Instructor Arabella Shore
AS and her sisters and brothers were all educated at home, and the younger ones were very largely educated by Emily .
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.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Journal of Emily Shore</span&gt”;. Journal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded.
Residence Arabella Shore
AS was in her teens when the family moved to Madeira in a bid to cure the tuberculosis of her elder sister Margaret Emily . However, Margaret Emily died there the following year, and the...
death Arabella Shore
She left her sister Emily 's manuscript diary to the British Museum (that part of it which is now the British Library ) but her will never reached probate and the papers never reached the depository.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Journal of Emily Shore</span&gt”;. Journal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded.
Material Conditions of Writing Arabella Shore
AS probably began writing at an early age, as did both her sisters (one elder and one younger). But after the elder, Emily , died in Madeira from tuberculosis, the two remaining sisters were told...
Family and Intimate relationships Louisa Catherine Shore
Her sisters both became interesting writers, though Margaret Emily died too young to have established, as Arabella did, a professional career.
Instructor Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS and her sisters and brothers were all educated at home; Emily played a significant role in teaching her juniors.
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.
Residence Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS was in her mid-teens when the family moved to Madeira in 1838 on account of the already precarious health of the eldest sister, Margaret Emily . After Margaret Emily died the following year from...

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Shore, Margaret Emily. A Collection of some of the Most Celebrated Parliamentary Speeches. 1832.
Shore, Margaret Emily. “Introduction”. Journal of Emily Shore, edited by Arabella Shore et al., New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898, p. v - xiii.
Shore, Margaret Emily. Journal of Emily Shore. Editors Shore, Louisa Catherine and Arabella Shore, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891.
Shore, Margaret Emily. Journal of Emily Shore. Editors Shore, Louisa Catherine and Arabella Shore, Kegan Paul, 1898.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Journal of Emily Shore</span&gt”;. Journal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded.