Ellen Mary Clerke

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EMC , active during the second half of the nineteenth century, was a well-known linguist who published translations of Italian verse. In addition, she wrote poetry, published a novel, and was a frequent contributor to several periodicals.

Milestones

26 September 1840
EMC was born at Skibbereen in County Cork, Ireland; she was the eldest of three children.
Skibbereen is sometimes called the capital of West Cork.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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2 March 1906
EMC died of bronchitis in South Kensington after being ill a short time; her sister survived her by less than a year.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.

Biography

Birth and Family

26 September 1840
EMC was born at Skibbereen in County Cork, Ireland; she was the eldest of three children.
Skibbereen is sometimes called the capital of West Cork.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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