Poet. Pseudonym: “I. S.” Daughter of Thomas Southall and cousin of Joseph Henry Shorthouse.
Sister of Margaret Evans, with whom she published the volumes *Dies Dominica: Being
Hymns and Metrical Meditations for Each Sunday in the Natural Year* (1897, not jointly
authored) and *Songs of Siluria: to which is added Fluvius Lacrymarum* (1890, unclear
whether jointly authored). Also author of *Rachel, and Other Poems* (1887) and *Memorials
of the Pritchards of Almeley and their Descendants* (second edition, 1901). Biographical
information: Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 445; *Life, Letters, and Literary
Remains of J. H. Shorthouse*, Macmillan and Co., 1905, vol. 1, p. 19; BL. (CC, AC)