Amy Clarke
Amy Key Clarke (21 December 1892 – 20 June 1980)
Early life and education
Clarke was born at 121
She was educated at
Clarke and Florence Cunningham
In 1917 Clarke stayed for seven weeks with Florence Cunningham (1871–1950, granddaughter of writer
Clarke was enamoured of the spirituality in the poems of Florence, and wrote to Florence from Newnham College saying that she was inspired and wanted to come and stay with her. This announcement was a surprise, but Cunningham did not refuse her because she was a friend of her daughter. Clarke stayed for 7 weeks, and during that time she would speak to Cunningham while in a state of inspiration for one or two hours at a time, only in the presence of her husband and daughter. Clarke related that miracles happened which were also witnessed by her family during her sojourn in order to try to demonstrate that she was under the control of higher powers. Clarke left as suddenly as she came, in an agreeable way: She wrote to Florence on Christmas Eve, 1917, addressing her as "My dear Mother."[3] [citation needed]
Career
That year, Clarke wrote a mystical poem "Vision of Him" which the same year was published in the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.
After reading
She finally
Works
- The Universal Character of Christianity. London: Faber and Faber, 1950
- A History of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1853-1953. London: Faber and Faber, 1953
- The Commentary of Geoffrey of Vitry on Claudian De raptu Proserpinae: Transcribed and edited by A.K. Clarke and P.M.Giles, with an introduction and notes by A.K. Clarke (Leiden, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1973)
- A History of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1853-1979. Suffolk: John Catt, 1979
- The Story of Truro High School, the Benson Foundation: with a memoir of its first headmistress Amy Key. 1980
Death
Clarke died at the age of 87 in 1980. She was living at the time in St. Ninian's, Victoria Street, Cambridge.[2]