Freeman Clarke, Sarah Anne (1808-1896)

Title

Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke

Author

Freeman Clarke, Sarah Anne (1808-1896)

Date of Birth

1808-1896

Place of origin

Dorchester, Massachusetts

Country of origin

United States of America

Language

English

Profession

Painter

Periodical contributor

Biographical details

Clarke was born in Massachusetts in 1808. Her brother was the Unitarian minister James Freeman Clarke. She was involved in the Transcendentalist Movement.

In 1843 Clarke traveled with her brother James and mutual friend Margaret Fuller to the area of the Great Lakes and the territories of Wisconsin and Illinois. Fuller wrote and Clarke illustrated the journey in the book Summer on the Lakes in 1843. Clarke exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
She wrote for the prominent American peridiocals, including The Dial and the Century Magazine.

She died in 1896.

Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist

Myerson, Joel. “A True and High-Minded Person: Transcendentalist Sarah Clarke. Southwest Review, Spring 1974, 163-172.

Selected publications

(1840) "Dante" in Dial, July 1840, vol. I, p. 136

"Dante"

(1884) "Notes on the exile of Dante; from his sentence of banishment while in Rome, 1302, to his death in Ravenna, 1321", in Century magazine, vol. XXVII-XXVIII.

"Notes on the exile of Dante; from his sentence of banishment while in Rome, 1302, to his death in Ravenna, 1321"

(1884) "The portraits of Dante", Century magazine, vol. XXVII, Feb. 1884, pp. 574-581

"The portraits of Dante"

Link to external sources

Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke - Wikipedia