Clarke, Sarah Freeman

Title: Clarke, Sarah Freeman
LOC Authority File: Clarke, Sarah Freeman, 1808-1896
Full Name: Freeman Clarke, Sarah Anne (1808-1896)
Lifespan: 1808-1896
Place of origin: Dorchester
Country of origin: United States of America
Language: English
Occupation: Painter; Periodical contributor
Short biography: 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 travelled 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 List of 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