Educated at the Dublin School of Art. Beginning in 1893, she started publishing many collections of poetry. She married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and literary critic, in 1895. She became a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival. She became friends with Katherine Tynan and Rose Cavanaugh. She moved with Shorter to London where they remained until her early death at 51 from undisclosed causes, although her friend Tynan has said that she died from a broken heart following the Irish uprising. Her collected poems were published in 1907. Shorter was also an accomplished sculptor. Her many works include The Fairy Changeling (1897), Ballads and Poems (1899), The Story and Song of Black Roderick (1906), Madge Lindsay (1913) and Love of Ireland (1916). |
