[1] She published a volume of poems entitled Lone Star Lights (1890), two novels, Held in Trust (1892) and Circumstance (1893), and numerous short stories and sketches.

[1] Orphaned in early childhood, she was reared by her guardian, Sylvanus Reed, of Bonham, Texas, where at Carleton College, she attended school until she entered the Visitation Academy of St. Louis, from which institution she was graduated with first honors at seventeen years of age.

[1] Her short stories appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, in the North American Review, the New York World, and other leading periodicals.

[1] She died November 24, 1893,[5] in New York City, and was interred in the family burying ground at Cactus Hill, Wise County,[4] which is now submerged under Lake Bridgeport.

[6] A memoir of Shortridge was in preparation—a sort of autobiographical sketch of her literary work and mechanical methods, compiled from her journals and letters, by her sister, Mrs. Kate Hunt Craddock.