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"DORA SHORTER (Sigerson) (1866-1918), Irish poet, was born in Dublin, Aug. 16 1866. She was the daughter of Dr. George Sigerson, the Celtic scholar, and married in 1896 Clement K. Shorter (b. 1857), editor of the Sphere and other London illustrated papers ( see 19.563). Her first volume of verse appeared in 1894, and she established a considerable reputation as a writer of lyrics and ballads; the subjects often religious, or drawn from the treasures of Irish legend, or in praise of the Irish country. Her Collected Poems were published in 1909, and she wrote one novel, Through Wintry Terrors (1907). She died in London, Jan. 6 1918. Two posthumous volumes of poems appeared in 1918 and 1919, as well as A Dull Day in London and other sketches, with a preface by Thomas Hardy, in 1920.