Clement King Shorter

Clement King Shorter (1857–1926) was an English journalist and literary scholar. Born in London, he worked as a clerk at Somerset House while studying at night, then became editor of the Illustrated London News in 1891 and founded the illustrated papers The Sketch, The Sphere and The Tatler. A devoted collector of Brontë manuscripts, he acquired many letters from Charlotte's widower and her friend Ellen Nussey, and published Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle (1896) and The Brontës: Life and Letters. He also wrote on George Borrow and Napoleon. His first wife was the Irish poet Dora Sigerson.