Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Clement Shorter
Standard Name: Shorter, Clement
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Dora Sigerson | Presumably the inclusion or exclusion of her poems on the Irish Rebellion in the larger volume was in some way related to the publication schedule. She dedicated Love of Ireland to her husband, Clement Shorter |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Sigerson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | Bryher, the illegitimate daughter of wealthy shipping magnate Sir John Ellerman
, had developed an interest in HD after reading her poetry, and wrote to her requesting a meeting. She had obtained HD's address from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) married Egerton Tertius Clairmonte
, whom she had met only months before. Her editor Terence de Vere White gives his name as George Egerton Clairmonte, and supposes that GE
took... |
Fictionalization | Margaret Catchpole | Richard Cobbold
, son of Elizabeth Cobbold
, and rector of Wortham, published a fictionalised treatment of MC
's life in 1845 entitled The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. It was... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | Attending a Journalists' Congress, KT
met the prominent English journalist and editor Clement Shorter
(later the husband of her friend Dora Sigerson
). Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916. 105 |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | In his review for The Sphere, Clement Shorter
deemed this matchless. qtd. in Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 234 qtd. in Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. University Press of Virginia , 2000. 193 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | The first collected edition of EG
's work was the 8-volume Knutsford Edition with prefaces by A. W. Ward
(1906). Clement Shorter
provided introductions to eleven volumes of The Novels and Tales of Mrs. Gaskell... |
Publishing | Katharine Tynan | KT
began writing for Clement Shorter
's journal, the Sketch; this work, she later wrote, made all the difference between affluence and ruin. Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916. 104 |
Publishing | Dora Sigerson | The Daily Telegraph carried DS
's verse prayer, Comfort the Women, A Prayer in Time of War, which her husband, Clement Shorter
, afterwards privately printed and distributed in an edition of twenty copies. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Dora Sigerson | DS
's An Old Proverb first appeared in The Nation; this too her husband
privately printed the same year in twenty-five copies as a free-standing publication for distribution among his friends. qtd. in OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
wrote on 23 January 1893 to offer Clement Shorter
a short story especially for the Sketch. qtd. in Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911. 22 |
Publishing | Hélène Barcynska | She persevered, however. She names about ten editors, male and female, who took her work at this time, sometimes offering advice as well as payment: a piece for the Sphere won her ten guineas from... |
Reception | Dora Sigerson | Katharine Tynan
and Eva Gore-Booth
compiled a collection of poems by other people entitled In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson
, 1918-1923, of which DS
's husband, Clement Shorter
, privately printed twenty-five copies. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Timeline
27 January 1900: The Sphere; an illustrated newspaper for...
Writing climate item
27 January 1900
The Sphere; an illustrated newspaper for the home was launched in London.
North, John S., editor. The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series2/defaultLoggedIn.asp.
3 August 1916: In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish...
National or international item
3 August 1916
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish nationalist Roger Casement
, formerly Sir Roger, was executed for treason at Pentonville Prison
in London for attempting to smuggle a shipment of German arms to Ireland.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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Texts
Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.