Clara Erskine Clement Waters (August 28, 1834, in St. Louis, Missouri – February 29, 1916, in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American author and traveler.
American novelist
Clara Erskine Clement
Born
28 August 1834
Died
29 February 1916 (aged 81)
Occupation
Historian, writer
From "A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Vol. 3, Architecture" (1891) by Clara Erskine Clement
Early life
On August 28, 1834, Clement was born as Clara Erskine in St. Louis, Missouri. Clement's father was John Erskine, a businessman. Clement's mother was Harriet Bethiah (Godfrey) Erskine. She was educated at home by private tutors.
Career
Clement's writing career in 1869 with Simple Story of the Orient.
Personal life
In 1852, Clement married James Hazen Clement, a businessman. They moved to Newton, Massachusetts.
After the death of her first husband, in 1882 Clement married Edwin Forbes Waters, author and owner of the Boston Daily Advertiser. They resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]
Clement made extensive tours in Europe, visited Palestine and Turkey in 1868, and traveled round the world in 1883/4.[1] Her travels continued later in life.
Selected works
Simple Story of the Orient, her first work, printed privately (1869)
Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art (Boston, 1871)
Hand-Books of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (3 vols., 1883–86)
Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints (1886)
Stories of Art and Artists (1886)
"The Queen of the Adriatic or Venice, Mediaeval and Modern" (1893)
Naples: The City of Parthenope and Its Environs (1894)
Women Artists in Europe and America (1903)
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (1904)
Women in the Fine Arts (1906)
She also translated a volume of Kenan's lectures and Dosia's Daughter, a novel by Henri Gréville, and edited a translation of Carl von Lützow's Treasures of Italian Art.[1]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Clement, Clara Erskine". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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