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Her career as an author of poetry and prose began in 1887 when she was not quite seventeen years of age. She went on to increase her literary reputation until her death. In some of her poems, there was an atmosphere of [[Depression (mood)|melancholy]] which might seem as if it cast upon them the shadow of a too-early death.{{sfn|Bacon|Thompson|Storrs|1906|p=871}} She provided the English translation to Thadgh O'Donoghue's [[libretto]] for the Irish opera ''[[Muirgheis]]'' (1903) by [[Thomas O'Brien Butler]] (1861–1915). | Her career as an author of poetry and prose began in 1887 when she was not quite seventeen years of age. She went on to increase her literary reputation until her death. In some of her poems, there was an atmosphere of [[Depression (mood)|melancholy]] which might seem as if it cast upon them the shadow of a too-early death.{{sfn|Bacon|Thompson|Storrs|1906|p=871}} She provided the English translation to Thadgh O'Donoghue's [[libretto]] for the Irish opera ''[[Muirgheis]]'' (1903) by [[Thomas O'Brien Butler]] (1861–1915). | ||
In 1901, she married the English [[Intellectual#Man of Letters|man of letters]] [[Wilfrid Hugh Chesson]] (1870–1953). She died from heart failure at her home in [[North Sheen]] on 14 April 1906.{{sfn|Gould}}{{sfn|''The Western Times''|1906}} Five volumes of her selected poems were published that year by Alston Rivers, of London,{{sfn|Bacon|Thompson|Storrs|1906|p=871}} which included a short biographical note by the editor, her husband, and an introductory appreciation by Ford Madox Hueffer.{{sfn|John W. Parker and Son|1906|p=333}} | In 1901, she married the English [[Intellectual#Man of Letters|man of letters]] [[Wilfrid Hugh Chesson]] (1870–1953). She died from heart failure at her home in [[North Sheen]] on 14 April 1906.{{sfn|Gould}}{{sfn|''The Western Times''|1906}} They had three children: Ann Caroline Spry (b. 1902), Dermot (b. 1904), and Dagmar (b. 1906).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/chesson-eleanor-nora-a1638}}</ref> Five volumes of her selected poems were published that year by Alston Rivers, of London,{{sfn|Bacon|Thompson|Storrs|1906|p=871}} which included a short biographical note by the editor, her husband, and an introductory appreciation by Ford Madox Hueffer.{{sfn|John W. Parker and Son|1906|p=333}} | ||
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Nora Chesson (2 January 1871 – 14 April 1906) was an English journalist and poet. She won for herself a distinct celebrity as a contributor to most of the English periodicals and newspapers of her time.Template:Sfn
Biography
Eleanor Jane Hopper was born in Exeter, on 2 January 1871.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Her father, Capt. Harman Baillie Hopper, was Irish. She was a participant in the Irish literary movement of the 1890s, having some influence on W. B. Yeats in particular with her Ballads in Prose (1894).
Her career as an author of poetry and prose began in 1887 when she was not quite seventeen years of age. She went on to increase her literary reputation until her death. In some of her poems, there was an atmosphere of melancholy which might seem as if it cast upon them the shadow of a too-early death.Template:Sfn She provided the English translation to Thadgh O'Donoghue's libretto for the Irish opera Muirgheis (1903) by Thomas O'Brien Butler (1861–1915).
In 1901, she married the English man of letters Wilfrid Hugh Chesson (1870–1953). She died from heart failure at her home in North Sheen on 14 April 1906.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn They had three children: Ann Caroline Spry (b. 1902), Dermot (b. 1904), and Dagmar (b. 1906).[1] Five volumes of her selected poems were published that year by Alston Rivers, of London,Template:Sfn which included a short biographical note by the editor, her husband, and an introductory appreciation by Ford Madox Hueffer.Template:Sfn
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