Nora Chesson

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Nora Hopper (January 2, 1871 - April 14, 1906) was an English poet. She was born in Exeter, of an Irish father Capt Harman Baillie Hopper. She was a participant in the Irish literary movement of the 1890s, having some influence on W. B. Yeats in particular with her Ballads in Prose (1894);

She married in 1901 the English man of letters Wilfrid Hugh Chesson (1870-1953), becoming Nora Chesson.

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• Warwick Gould, ‘Hopper , Eleanor Jane (1871–1906)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 2 Jan 2008
• Works by or about Nora Chesson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)