Clare, Ada
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Variants
- McElhinney, Jane
- McElheney, Jane
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1836
Death Date
- 1874
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
Author
Poet
Actress
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Sources
- found: Her Only a woman's heart, 1866:t.p. (Ada Clare)
- found: NUC pre-1956(McElhinney, Jane)
- found: Pendlebury, T. Jane McElheney, 1991:t.p. (Jane McElheney) p. 1 (Jane McElheney, real name of poet Ada Clare, 1836-74, used as a pseudonym by artist Theresa Pendlebury.)
- found: Oxford reference online, 22 October 2012(Clare, Ada, pseudonym of Jane McElheney, 1836-74, whose notoriety as a beauty, and as the "queen of Bohemia" at Pfaff's Cellar, was responsible for the popularity of her passionate poetry and fiction in various New York periodicals; after the decline of the group at Pfaff's, she became an actress)
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Change Notes
- 1984-09-14: new
- 2012-10-25: revised
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