Clara Erskine Clement

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Clara Erskine Clement Waters (28 August 1834 in St. Louis, Missouri – February 29, 1916 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was a United States author and traveler.

Life

She was the daughter of John and Harriet Bethiah (Godfrey) Erskine. Her father was a businessman. She was educated at home by private tutors. In 1852, she married James Hazen Clement, a businessman. They moved to Newton, Massachusetts. After the death of her first husband, in 1882 she married Edwin Forbes Waters, author and owner of the Boston Daily Advertiser. They resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She made extensive tours in Europe, visited Palestine and Turkey in 1868, and traveled round the world in 1883/4. Her travels continued later in life.

Works

Simple Story of the Orient, her first work, printed privately (1869)
Legendary and Mythological Art (Boston, 1871)
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works (1874; 9th ed., 1892)
Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works, with Laurence Hutton (1879)
Eleanor Maitland, a novel (1881)
Life of Charlotte Cushman (1882)
History of Egypt
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)
Women Artists in Europe and America (1903)
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.

Notes

References

"Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1834–1916) - Art History". JRank Articles. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Waters, Clara Erskine Clement". Encyclopedia Americana.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Clement, Clara Erskine". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

External links

"Clara Erskine Clement Waters Papers, 1869-1932: Finding Aid". Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Retrieved 8 April 2012.

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Name	Clement, Clara Erskine
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Short description	American travel and history author
Date of birth	28 August 1834
Place of birth
Date of death	29 February 1916
Place of death

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