Shorter, Clement K.

Clement King Shorter (19 July 1857 - 19 November 1926) was a British journalist and literary critic. Clement Shorter was born in London, the youngest of three boys. The son of Richard and Elizabeth (nee Clemenson) Shorter, young Clement attended school from 1863 to 1871 in Downham Market, Norfolk. He was still a young boy when his father died in Melbourne, Australia, where he had gone in an attempt to make a better life for his young family. Once finished with his schooling, Shorter spent four years working for several booksellers and publishers on Paternoster Row in London. In 1877, he found