From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ada Clare
Ada Clare
For the character Ada Clare in the novel by Charles frequented Pfaff’s Cellar, where she became known as
Dickens see Bleak House the "Queen of Bohemia". She also wrote for the Saturday
Press, an iconoclastic weekly magazine of the arts.[1] Her
only novel, entitled Only a Woman’s Heart (1866), was so
poorly received by reviewers that she withdrew from ac-
tive writing, and spent the rest of her life acting in a
provincial stock company.[1]
Clare suffered a dog bite in her theatrical agent’s of-
fice and died from rabies.[1]
References
[1] ^ Kenneth T. Jackson: The Encyclopedia of New York
City: The New York Historical Society; Yale
University Press; 1995. P. 238.
External links
• Ada Clare, Queen of Bohemia, by Charles Warren
Magazine,
Stoddard, National Magazine September 1905
• Obituary, Brief Chronicles, William Winter
• 2 short radio segments of Clare’s writing from
California Legacy Project Radio Anthology (scripts
and audio)
Ada Clare, date unknown Persondata
Name Clare, Ada
Ada Clare (July 1834 in Charleston, South Carolina – Alternative names
McElhenney,
March 4, 1874), born Jane McElhenney was an American
Short description
actress, writer, and feminist.[1]
She grew up under the care of her maternal grand- Date of birth 1836
father as part of an aristocratic Southern family,[1] but Place of birth
started her career as a writer around age 18, writing un- Date of death March 4, 1874
der the pseudonyms Clare and later Ada Clare.
Place of death
She moved to New York City in 1854, took up acting,
engaged in a widely publicized liaison with pianist and
composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and bore a son out
of wedlock.[1] During the height of her acting career, she
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• Deaths from rabies
• Deaths due to animal attacks in the United States
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