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Moma Clarke Maria Elvins Clarke née Pountney (1869, Great Barr, Staffordshire – June 20, 1958, Worthing, Sussex) was a British journalist based in Paris from the early 1900s until 1937 who wrote under the name Moma Clarke. She was the Paris fashion correspondent for the British newspaper ''The Times'' from the early 1910s until 1937,〔The Times Archive〕 also writing articles about topics including the theatre, the arts, and Parisian life. She was born Maria Elvins Pountney in Great Barr, Stafford, England from Benjamin Pountney and Ellen (born Spencer), and had an older brother called Frederick Spencer Pountney, also a journalist. After the death of their parents the siblings travelled in Europe and visited Paris. On 19 August 1903 Maria married Herbert Edward Clarke, an English publisher living and working in Paris, owner of the Imprimerie Vendôme at 338 Rue St-Honoré. Herbert died in 1931, and Moma Clarke lived in Paris until 1937, when she returned to Britain. After WWII Clarke resided at Turleigh Cottage, in the village of Turleigh near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, moving to Rivers St in Bath in 1952. She died in Sussex on June 20, 1958. She published several books, including ''Paris Waits, 1914'' (1915); ''Cameos of French Life'' (1925); ''Paris'' (1929); ''Versailles'' (1930); ''Light and Shade in France'' (1939); and ''A Stranger Within the Gates'' (1942). == References ==
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