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Lot 197Y

24 May 2006, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,080 inc. premium

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Gertrude Massey (British, 1868-1957)

A White Shepherd dog, called 'Prince', owned by Mr Clement Shorter.
Signed on obverse Gertrude Massey and inscribed PRINCE, gilt-metal frame with pierced ribbon cresting.
Rectangular, 79mm (3 1/8in) high

Footnotes

Clement King Shorter (1857-1926). Shorter began his career in journalism in 1888, writing for the Star and working as a sub-editor for the Penny Illustrated Paper. In 1891 he was made editor of the Illustrated London News, where he also edited Album and Pick-me-up. In addition to editing, Shorter founded three papers: Sketch (1893), The Sphere (1900), and The Tatler (1903).

In the early 1900s, Shorter's main interest had become collecting manuscripts, books, and ephemera related to his favourite authors, particularly the Brontës. Shorter's collection and research eventually developed into several books on the sisters, including Charlotte Brontë and her Circle (1896), Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters (1905), and The Brontës: Life and Letters (1908). He also edited Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë (1899).

Clement Shorter was married twice: first in 1896 to Irish poet Dora Sigerson (d.1918); and in 1920 to Annie Doris Banfield of Penzance.

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