Emily Clark


Emily Frederick Clark was an English novelist and poet.

Family

She was the daughter of a customs official named Clark and his wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Felice Frederick. On the title pages of her novels she made unsubstantiated claims to be the great-granddaughter of Theodore, King of Corsica.

Finances

Several of Clark's novels are set in the Welsh countryside. Press attention to her work dwindled, leaving her to wage a lifelong battle against penury. Twenty-four of her 42 applications to the Royal Literary Fund were successful. Nothing further is known of her after the last application was sent in 1833.

Works