Mrs. George W. Voiers, of Forney, Texas. It was James Gordon Bennett who said of this poem: "Nothing more exquisite is to be found in the English language." Dispassionate critics pronounced her first novel, Held in Trust (1892), as a pleasing story—fresh, clean and sweet as a breeze from a Texas prairie. Her second novel, Circumstance (1892), was set in Austin, Texas. Her short stories appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, in the North American Review, the New York World, and other leading periodicals. Shortridge wrote especially well for children, her "Jingles" (Modern Mother Goose) attracted wide attention in the columns of the Sunday World. Personal life and legacy She died November 24, 1893, in New York City, and was interred in the family burying ground at Cactus Hill, Wise County, which is now submerged under Lake Bridgeport. A memoir of Shortridge was in preparation—a sort of autobiographical sketch of her literary work and mechanical methods, compiled from her journals and letters, by her sister, Mrs. Kate Hunt Craddock. References Attribution Bibliography External links 1858 births 1893 deaths People from Decatur, Texas 19th-century American writers 19th-century American women writers Poets from Texas Novelists from Texas