Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Margaret Emily Shore
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Standard Name: Shore, Margaret Emily
Birth Name: Margaret Emily Shore
Used Form: Emily Shore
MES
, who died in her twentieth year in 1839, became known for precocious writing in several genres: poetry, short fiction, science writing, and—the best-known of her works and almost all that survives—the diary of her formative years marked by the onset and progress of tuberculosis.
She left her sister Emily
's manuscript diary to the British Museum
(that part of it which is now the British Library
) but her will never reached probate and the papers never reached the depository.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The Journal of Emily ShoreJournal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded, 2006.
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
Arabella Shore
Of her sisters the elder, Emily
, died of tuberculosis at only nineteen, leaving an astonishing body of written work in manuscript; the younger, Louisa
, became a proto-feminist writer and a regular contributor to...
Instructor
Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS
and her sisters and brothers were all educated at home; Emily
played a significant role in teaching her juniors.
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.
Instructor
Arabella Shore
AS
and her sisters and brothers were all educated at home, and the younger ones were very largely educated by Emily
.
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.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The Journal of Emily ShoreJournal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded, 2006.
Material Conditions of Writing
Arabella Shore
AS
probably began writing at an early age, as did both her sisters (one elder and one younger). But after the elder, Emily
, died in Madeira from tuberculosis, the two remaining sisters were told...
Residence
Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS
was in her mid-teens when the family moved to Madeira in 1838 on account of the already precarious health of the eldest sister, Margaret Emily
. After Margaret Emily died the following year from...
Residence
Arabella Shore
AS
was in her teens when the family moved to Madeira in a bid to cure the tuberculosis of her elder sister Margaret Emily
. However, Margaret Emily died there the following year, and the...
Textual Features
Louisa Catherine Shore
This was their final collaboration before Louisa's death. Elegies, the opening poem of this 53-page volume, was her response to the deaths of her sister
and brother
.
Textual Production
Louisa Catherine Shore
LCS
probably began writing at an early age, like her short-lived elder sister Margaret Emily
, who was publishing in her teens. But after Margaret Emily's premature death of tuberculosis, the surviving sisters were advised...
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
Shore, Margaret Emily. A Collection of some of the Most Celebrated Parliamentary Speeches. 1832.
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.
Gates, Barbara T., and Margaret Emily Shore. “Self-writing as Legacy: The Journal of Emily ShoreJournal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded.
