Ada Clare
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Ada Clare born Jane McElhenney, was an American
actress, writer, and feminist.
She grew up under the care of her maternal grandfather as part of an aristocratic Southern family, but started her career as a writer around age 18, writing under the pseudonyms Clare and later Ada Clare.
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. During the height of her acting career, she frequented Pfaff's Cellar
, where she became known as the "Queen of Bohemia". She also wrote for the Saturday Press, an iconoclastic weekly magazine of the arts. Her only novel, entitled Only a Woman's Heart (1866), was so poorly received by reviewers that she withdrew from active writing, and spent the rest of her life acting in a provincial stock company.
Clare suffered a dog bite in her theatrical agent's office and died from rabies
.
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actress, writer, and feminist.
She grew up under the care of her maternal grandfather as part of an aristocratic Southern family, but started her career as a writer around age 18, writing under the pseudonyms Clare and later Ada Clare.
She moved to New York City
New York City
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in 1854, took up acting, engaged in a widely publicized liaison with pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works...
, and bore a son out of wedlock. During the height of her acting career, she frequented Pfaff's Cellar
Pfaff's beer cellar
The vault at Pfaffs where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouseWhile on the walk immediately overhead pass the myriad feet of Broadway...
, where she became known as the "Queen of Bohemia". She also wrote for the Saturday Press, an iconoclastic weekly magazine of the arts. Her only novel, entitled Only a Woman's Heart (1866), was so poorly received by reviewers that she withdrew from active writing, and spent the rest of her life acting in a provincial stock company.
Clare suffered a dog bite in her theatrical agent's office and died from rabies
Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals. It is zoonotic , most commonly by a bite from an infected animal. For a human, rabies is almost invariably fatal if post-exposure prophylaxis is not administered prior to the onset of severe symptoms...
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External links
- Ada Clare, Queen of Bohemia, by Charles Warren StoddardCharles Warren StoddardCharles Warren Stoddard was an American author and editor.-Life and works:Charles Warren Stoddard was born in Rochester, New York on August 7, 1843. He was descended in a direct line from Anthony Stoddard of England, who settled at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1639...
, 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)