Author: Clarke, Anne
Biography:
CLARK, Ann (1753-1824: ancestry.co.uk)
Pseudonym A Countrywoman
Although she used the spelling Anne Clarke, her name appears as Ann Clark in public records. Her curious book is a mix of letters, sent as by “Philanthropos” to the London General Evening Post; verse, some of which had been printed in GM; and, in the second edition, a memoir of her father. He was John Clark, a surveyor, who was born in 1716 in Church Honeybourne, Worcestershire. He inherited land in Pebworth (then in Gloucestershire but now Worcestershire) and in 1747 at Chipping Camden he married Catherine Wilks, daughter of Thomas Wilks of Pebworth. Ann was their youngest child, born at Pebworth and baptised there on 23 Nov. 1753. Nothing is known about her education but the letters and verse printed in her book reveal a lively mind, fierce intelligence, satiric wit, and wide-ranging interests. She died at Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, and was buried at Pebworth on 1 June 1824. Her memoir of her father records his death on 24 Mar. 1795. (ancestry.co.uk 4 Jan. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 4 Jan. 2024)
Other Names:
- Ann Clark