Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Arabella Shore
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Standard Name: Shore, Arabella
Birth Name: Arabella Shore
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.
LCS
died at 16 Hillside in Wimbledon at a little over seventy, leaving her surviving sister
to publish a memoir of her and to reissue her works.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
death
Lydia Becker
She died at the Clinique Juillard before being seen by a doctor, and was buried in Geneva. Among the many who paid tribute to her were Arabella Shore
and Frances Power Cobbe
.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
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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.
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Emily Shore
Her sisters, Arabella
and Louisa Catherine
, both followed her in becoming writers.
Fictionalization
Florence Nightingale
FN
's early reputation was won by her work, not her writings. Arabella
and Louisa Catherine Shore
included a tribute to her in their War Lyrics (1855). Her efforts during the Crimean War also inspired...
Intertextuality and Influence
Louisa Catherine Shore
The Crimean War drew from LCS
a poem which, some time around 1854, her sister Arabella Shore
submitted to The Spectator without her sister's knowledge. It appeared there under Arabella's title for it, War Music.
Intertextuality and Influence
Sappho
Elizabeth Moody
engagingly converts Sappho
into a contemporary in Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts, 1798.
Jay, Peter, and Caroline Lewis. Sappho Through English Poetry. Anvil Press Poetry, 1996.
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But many women poets accepted the notion of her rejected love for Phaon: Robinson
politics
Louisa Catherine Shore
Like Arabella
, LCS
became active in the movement for defining and seeking to reform the social position of women.
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.
Author summary
Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS
was a poet writing primarily on public and national topics during the later nineteenth century. She published mostly in company with her sister Arabella
, though her one verse-drama appeared alone.
Publishing
Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS
's first appearance in The Spectator led to the publication of a volume of poems about the Crimean War by her and her sister Arabella
, War Lyrics.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1431 (31 March 1855): 376
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.
Publishing
Margaret Emily Shore
The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES
.
Shore, Margaret Emily. Journal of Emily Shore. Editors Shore, Louisa Catherine and Arabella Shore, New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898.
A second joint volume by Arabella
and Louisa Catherine Shore
appeared under the initials A. and L., titled for the latter's long narrative poem: Gemma of the Isles, A Lyrical Drama, and Other Poems...
Textual Production
Louisa Catherine Shore
Arabella
and LCS
, as A. and L. authors of Gemma of the Isles, Hannibal, A Drama, and Fra Dolcino, published Elegies and Memorials.
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Textual Production
Louisa Catherine Shore
A volume of LCS
's Poems appeared posthumously with a memoir by her surviving sister
and an appreciation by Frederic Harrison
.
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.
Textual Production
Louisa Catherine Shore
Arabella Shore
published Poems by A. and L. under the full names of herself and her deceased sister, LCS
.
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.
Timeline
July 1889: Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the...
Building item
July 1889
Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the Fortnightly Review to counter Mary Augusta Ward
's Appeal Against Female Suffrage in the previous month's Nineteenth Century.
“Women’s Suffrage: A Reply”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
52
, July 1889, pp. 123-39.
Texts
Shore, Arabella. Dante for Beginners. Chapman and Hall, 1886.
Shore, Arabella, and Louisa Catherine Shore. Elegies and Memorials. Kegan Paul, 1890.
Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards, 1900.
Shore, Arabella, and Louisa Catherine Shore. Fra Dolcino, and Other Poems. Smith, Elder, 1870.
Shore, Arabella, and Louisa Catherine Shore. Gemma of the Isles. Saunders and Otley, 1859.
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, New edition, Kegan Paul, 1898.
Shore, Louisa Catherine et al. Poems. John Lane, 1897.
Shore, Arabella, and Louisa Catherine Shore. Poems by A. and L. Grant Richards, 1897.
Shore, Arabella, and Louisa Catherine Shore. War Lyrics. Saunders and Otley, 1855.
