Marian Hooper Adams
| Marian Hooper Adams | |
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At Beverly farms in 1869
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| Born |
Marian Hooper September 13, 1843 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 6, 1885 (aged 42) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Resting place |
Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C. |
| Other names | Clover |
| Spouse(s) | Henry B. Adams (1872-1885) |
Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams (September 13, 1843 – December 6, 1885) was an American socialite, active society hostess, and arbiter of Washington, DC, and an accomplished amateur photographer.
Clover, who has been cited as the inspiration for writer Henry James's Daisy Miller (1878) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881), was married to writer Henry Adams. After her suicide, he commissioned the famous Adams Memorial, which features an enigmatic androgynous bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to stand at the site of her, and his, grave.
After Clover's death, Adams destroyed all the letters that she had ever written to him and rarely, if ever, spoke of her in public. She was also omitted from his The Education of Henry Adams. However, in letters to her friend Anne Palmer Fell, he opened up about his 12 years of happiness with Clover and his difficulty in dealing with her loss.
She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third and youngest child of Robert William Hooper (1810 - April 15, 1885) and Ellen H. Sturgis (1812-November 3, 1848). Her siblings were Ellen Sturgis "Nella" Hooper (1838–1887), who married professor Ephraim Whitman Gurney (1829–1886); and Edward William "Ned" Hooper (1839–1901). The Hooper family was wealthy and prominent. Clover's birthplace and childhood home in Boston, was at 114 Beacon Street, Beacon Hill. When she was five years old, her mother, a Transcendentalist poet, died and she became very close to her physician father. She was privately educated at a girls school in Cambridge, which was run by Elizabeth and Louis Agassiz.
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