Marian Hooper Adams

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Marian Hooper Adams, 1869

Marian Hooper Adams (born September 13, 1843 in Boston , † December 6, 1885 in Washington, DC ) was an American high society lady of Washington society and a hobby photographer .

Life

Marian Hooper was the daughter of ophthalmologist Robert William Hooper (1810-1885) and his wife Ellen Sturgis (1812-1848). Her maternal grandfather was the merchant William Sturgis, a pioneer in the Boston-China trade. Within the family she was called Clover .

Augustus Saint-Gaudens : The Adams Memorial , 1886

During the Civil War , Hooper was actively involved in the United States Sanitary Commission . On June 27, 1872, Marian Hooper married in Boston the historian and cultural philosopher Henry Adams (1838-1918), eldest son of the politician Charles Francis Adams, Sr. After their honeymoon in Europe, the young couple lived in Boston . In 1877 she moved to Washington, where she became the grand dame of Washington society. Mrs. Marian Adams is said to have inspired the writer Henry James for two of his novels , Daisy Miller (1878) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881).

The letters to her father and her later photographs between 1883 and 1885 give an insight into the life of women in the late 19th century. She also wrote several articles on photography that were published in The Washington Post . After the death of her father, Mrs. Adams often suffered from mental depression ( depression ) - in December 1885, her husband found her sitting dead in front of the fireplace.

After the tragic death of his wife, Henry Adams commissioned the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to build the famous Adams Memorial at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington.

Photographs of her are now in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society .

literature

  • Eugenia Kaledin: The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1994, ISBN 0-87023-913-9
  • Otto Friedrich : Clover: The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age , Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-67122-509-X
  • Ward Thoron (Ed.), The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1865-1883. , Little, Brown and Company, Boston

Web links

Commons : Marian Hooper Adams  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Description of the collection of photographs on the Massachusetts Historical Society homepage
personal data
SURNAME Hooper Adams, Marian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marian Hooper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American high society lady of Washington society and amateur photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1885
Place of death Washington, DC