Poet. Pseudonym: “M. E.” From Oxford. Daughter of Thomas Southall and cousin of Joseph
Henry Shorthouse. Sister of Isabel Southall, 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). Biographical information: Reilly, *Late
Victorian Poetry*, p. 156; *Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of J. H. Shorthouse*,
Macmillan and Co., 1905, vol. 1, p. 19; BL. (AC)