Nora Hopper (2 January 1871 – 14 April 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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“It’s like pushing marbles through a sieve. It means the sieve will never be the same again.”
—Before the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. As quoted in Crazy Salad, ch. 6, by Nora Ephron (1972)