Mrs. Henry Clarke facts for kids
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Amy Clarke (who also wrote as Mrs. Henry Clarke) was an English writer. She was born on April 17, 1853, and passed away on March 4, 1908. She was famous for writing exciting historical fiction and many books for children.
Her Life Story
Amy Clarke was born Amy Key in Plymouth, England, in 1853. Her parents were Joseph Henry Key and Elizabeth Hosking. She loved writing from a young age. When she was just 16, one of her stories was published in a magazine called Good Words.
At 20, Amy did very well in the Cambridge Examination, getting a top score. After this, she started teaching at Plymouth High School for Girls. Two years later, she took a break to study mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge.
In 1880, Amy left Plymouth High School. She became the very first headmistress of Truro High School for Girls. She kept learning, even attending London University to earn a master's degree (MA). While at university, she met Henry Clarke, who was a lecturer. They got married in 1889.
Amy and Henry had four children: John Henry (born 1891), Walter Oakley (1892), Amy Key (1893–1980), and Wilfrid Kinton (1894). After she got married, Amy mostly focused on writing. She only taught occasionally at Westfield College.
Amy Clarke passed away in 1908.
Her Books
Amy Clarke wrote many books, especially historical fiction and stories for children. Here are some of her selected works:
- A Clever Daughter, illustrated by Ida Lovering (1896)
- A High School Girl, or, The Secret of the Old Bureau, illustrated by H. A. Boole (1895)
- A Lad of Devon (1898)
- A Trusty Rebel, or, A Follower of Warbeck, illustrated by Walter C. Grieve
- A Village Tyrant, illustrated by Walter S. Stacey
- Dorothy's Discovery, illustrated by John Jellicoe
- Gipsy Dick, or, Two Little Brothers, illustrated by H. M. Brock and Richard Tod
- Honor Pentreath, a story in two parts
- Hope's Legacy, or, The Ardleighs of Ardleigh (1895)
- In Jacobite Days - being a Plain Narrative of certain Events connected with the Landing of his late Majesty King William at Torbay, and with the burning of the Town of Teignmouth by the French, written by the Rev. Gilbert Lane, D D, Rector of Withycombe in the County of Devon, illustrated by G. C. Hindley
- Into Stormy Waters (1901)
- James Godfrey's Wife, illustrated by F. Barnard (1894)
- Jennifer's Fortune (1893)
- Little Miss Vanity, illustrated by Walter S. Stacey
- Matthew Parkyn, illustrated by Walter S. Stacey (1896)
- Miss Merivale's Mistake, illustrated by Florence Meyerheim
- Nan's Schooldays, illustrated by Dorothy Travers-Pope
- Put to the Proof, illustrated by Will Dodds (1903)
- Ralph the Outlaw, a Tale of Adventure in Mediæval England
- Roscorla Farm, illustrated by W. H. Overend
- Roskelly of Roskelly, illustrated by Walter S. Stacey (1900)
- Rueben Thorne's Temptation, illustrated by J. Nash
- Teddy's Adventures, illustrated by E. A. Cubitt
- That Boy Jim, illustrated by S. B. Pearse
- The Bushranger's Secret, illustrated by Walter S. Stacey
- The Coplestone Cousins (1905)
- The Fairclough Family, illustrated by G. Demain Hammond (1903)
- The Mystery of the Manor House, illustrated by Harold Copping
- The Ravensworth Scholarship, a High School Story for Girls, illustrated by John H. Bacon
- The Roskerry Treasure, A Tale of Wyatt's Rebellion
