Katharine Dooris Sharp

Katharine Dooris Sharp
Born	Emily Katharine Dooris 1846 (1846)
Died	1935 (aged 88–89)
Nationality	Irish-American
Occupation(s)	Writer, Botanist, Suffragist
Spouse	Henry James Sharp

E. Katharine Dooris Sharp (1846–1935) was an American botanist, poet, and suffragist. She was the author of Summer in a Bog.[1]

Biography

Emily Katharine Dooris was born in Ulster, Ireland and raised in Zanesville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Margaret (Dejoynstyn) and John Dooris.[2][3] She married Henry James Sharp, a medical doctor, around 1872.[4] The couple lived in London, Ohio, where Sharp became interested in botany. She contributed more than 400 specimens to the State Herbarium of Ohio during the period of 1899-1906. One of these, Armoracia aquatica, was rare to the area.[4]

Sharp began her writing career with a volume of poems, Eleanor's Courtship and The Songs that Sang Themselves, published in 1888. She also wrote fiction and non-fiction.[2] Sharp supported women's suffrage and wrote a series of articles, entitled "Women and the Elective Franchise," in a local newspaper around 1894.[2]

Partial bibliography

• Eleanor's Courtship and The Songs that Sang Themselves. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1888.[5]
• The South Ward. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe; New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1891.[6]
• The Doctor's Speaking Tube and other poems. Boston: Badger, 1904.
• Summer in a Bog. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1913.
• "Our National Flower," Science, 47 (1225), June 21, 1918. p. 611-12. doi:10.1126/science.47.1225.611
• Freeman, Ralph. Searching For Sgt Dorris (p337-338), Apple Tree Press, Belfast, 2021.

References

1. Stuckey, Ronald L. (1992). Women Botanists of Ohio: Born Before 1900 : with Reference Calendars from 1776 to 2028. RLS Creations. pp. 13–14. ISBN 9780966803402. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
2. "Katharine Dooris Sharp". The Magazine of Poetry. 6 (10): 440–442. 1894. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
3. Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (December 16, 2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135963422.
4. Bonta, Marcia (1995). "Katharine Dooris Sharp". American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 55–61. ISBN 9780890966341. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
5. Sharp, Katharine (Dooris) (1888). Eleanor's courtship and The songs that sang themselves. Cincinnati: Cincinnati, R. Clarke & co. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6931h80f.
6. Sharp, Katharine Dooris (1891). The south ward. Cinninnati & New York. hdl:2027/osu.32435054741897.