Martha Clare [née Turner]

(1800-1871)

LBT ID: MaClare1871	B/BAP: 1800-04-06 DIED: 1871-02-05
SOURCES: Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of Portraits, Books, Manuscripts belonging to John Clare (1893) 27; DNB ["John Clare"]
Rural poet and autodidact; he published Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) and was a writer for the London Magazine; his later years were spent in an asylum for the insane.
REFERENCES TO Martha Clare [née Turner]: Charles Lamb to John Clare, 31 August 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1822