MEMOIR
The following notice is an attempt not so much at narrative as at some kind of portraiture; for it treats of one whose life, passed in a world of her own, had in it none of what are called events. But in the small circle that knew her she was loved and admired both as a woman and a writer. It is hoped that some idea of what she was herself may be gathered from this Memorial. And if the sketch, slight and faint as it needs must be, of a personality so delicate and retiring, should yet have the good fortune to draw attention to the poems which follow—poems which are the expression of her whole being—I shall feel that the attempt has been justified.
Louisa Shore was the third and youngest daughter of the Reverend Thomas Shore, M.A., ex-Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; she was
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