Louisa Catherine Shore

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Louisa Catherine Shore (February 1824,

Wimbledon, England)[1] was an English poet. She was an active writer who often worked with her sister, Arabella Susanna Shore. They were both taught by their elder sister, who died young, but is now known as a diarist.[2]

Biography

Louisa Catherine Shore, was the youngest daughter of three daughters and two sons of Margaret Anne Twopeny and Thomas Shore. Louisa Shore and her two sisters, (Margaret) Emily Shore and Arabella Susanna Shore, were intelligent with a passion for learning and an interest in literature. Emily who died young was the tutor to her two younger sisters. She is now a noted diarist.[3] Louisa Shore often worked as a writer with her sister Arabella Shore. The first composition Louisa Shore wrote was War Music which was a poem on the Crimean War. Arabellla sent this poem in to The Spectator without her knowledge and then the two sisters came to an agreement and the composition was reprinted as War Lyrics.

Other literary works

The two remaining sisters, composed many other literary productions together such as Gemma of the Isles, a Lyrical Poem in 1859, Fra Dolcino, and other Poems in 1871 and Elegies and Memorials in 1890. In their last production together, Louisa Shore published two elegies, one was for the loss of her oldest sister Margaret Emily Shore who suffered from

Westminster Review, which discussed the women's movement and it was reprinted several times. In this pamphlet, she discusses with verve the nature of contemporary marriage.[6]

Shore's literary works reflect the feminist art movement because her poems often reflect women's experiences. In her younger days, Louisa Shore spent time in

The Saturday Review. In the later life, she resided at Orchard Pyle, Poyle with her sister Arabella. On 24 May 1895, Catherine Louisa Shore died at 16 Hillside in Wimbledon, at the age of seventy one. She was cremated at Woking Crematorium in Wimbledon.[4]
Her sister Arabella, published a memoir of her and her works.

Works

  • War Lyrics, 1855
  • Gemma of the Isles, a Lyrical Poem, 1859
  • Hannibal: a Poem in two Parts, published separately in 1861
  • Fra Dolcino, and Other Poems, 1871
  • Elegies and Memories, 1890

A selection of her unpublished poems was edited, after her death, by her sister in 1896, with an appreciative notice by Mr. Frederic Harrison, and a reissue of some of her dramas and poems appeared in 1897[4]

References

  1. ISBN 1144052475
    . Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  2. ^ L. H. Cust, 'Shore, Louisa Catherine (1824–1895)', rev. Megan A. Stephan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 15 Nov 2014
  3. ^ Barbara T. Gates, 'Shore, (Margaret) Emily (1819–1839)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 Nov 2014
  4. ^ a b c "Shore, Louisa Catherine".
  5. ^ "The Spectator". The Spectator.
  6. ISBN 1-84142-031-X
    . Retrieved 30 October 2014.
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