Marian Hooper was born 13 September 1843, the third child of prominent Boston ophthalmologist Robert William Hooper and his wife Ellen Sturgis, the daughter of China trade merchant Captain William Sturgis and his wife Elizabeth Davis. 有一段时间， “三叶草” (her birth a "lucky" surprise for her doting parents) and her siblings Ellen, 被称为“内拉”,爱德华说。, 被称为“内德," led a charmed childhood--a lovely and loving home on Summer Street in Boston near the Common, summers at their grandfather Sturgis's place at Horn Pond in Woburn or Aunt Eunice Hooper's in Marblehead or Aunt Carrie Tappan's in Lenox. 不幸的是, 虽然, the tragedies and sadness that had plagued Ellen Sturgis's own family would not spare the Hoopers.
Hoping to salvage Ellen Hooper's failing health, in 1848 三叶草's parents and siblings travelled to Savannah, leaving 三叶草 in Boston with her Aunt Susan Bigelow and grandfather William Sturgis. In letters to reassure Ellen of her daughter's well-being, William Sturgis described 三叶草 as "hearty as a North Carolina pig (that eats more than it earns) and as healthy as a young Indian … she is certainly the best child in the world.“不幸的是, Ellen Hooper's health did not improve and the family returned to Boston where she died of consumption at the age of 36, leaving three children under the age of 11. Robert Hooper never remarried and 三叶草 and her siblings were raised with the assistance of the Hoopers' much-loved housekeeper 贝齐·怀尔德 他一直和博士在一起. 霍普的余生.

 克拉弗·霍珀的教育

对于前几代女性来说, the completion of needlework samplers was an important demonstration of their academic attainments. While we don't know whether needlework was taught at Miss Houghton's school, 三叶草's sampler is very neatly and skillfully done. 在她年轻的时候, 克拉弗富有创造力, 欣赏戏剧, 绘画与写作, 还有针线活. Biographer Natalie Dykstra describes 三叶草 as "always" having "sewing in hand at the end of the day."
三叶草 was born into a family that valued education for women. Ellen Sturgis and her sisters had attended the boarding school of Elizabeth and Margaret Cushing in Hingham, where Ellen's favorite subject was Greek history. 三叶草 and her sister attended Miss Houghton's school in Boston and the prestigious Agassiz School in Cambridge where, 据她的祖父斯特吉斯说, 三叶草 was "a good scholar and excels too in all domestic and household matters."

“快乐的童年黄金时光”

According to biographer Otto Friedrich, "三叶草 Adams acquired and kept and left behind her a surprising number of Bibles," so it is not shocking to see the golden rule to "Love one another" included on 三叶草's sampler, but the phrase “快乐的童年黄金时光” is an intriguing choice. Al虽然 it could be seen as a statement of fact about a happy present, 在19世纪中期使用, the phrase is more commonly tied to loss and nostalgia. Two sentimental poems in the 1848 volume of Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion 演示链接. "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" by Gretta includes the stanza "Why come you back? 我们什么也不能给你, / no more the past is ours / Thine early scenes with thy blessings fraught / Thy childhood's golden hours." Lydia Sigourney's "访问 to Greenwood Cemetery" describes a child's explorations of cemeteries as "… sweet it was to me, in childhood's hours / ‘Neath every village church-yard shade to roam ….具体的短语, however (in a poem that seems peculiarly suited to 三叶草's situation), appeared in print mere months before 三叶草's sampler was complete in a poem called "The Past," by "Fanny" in The General Baptist Repository, 和传教观察员(1850年4月).

过去的! 这个世界充满了魔力
By which the coldest hearts are stirr'd
带着激动人心的回忆
童年快乐的黄金时光，
在林间的凉亭里自由漫步，
We dreamt that life was strewn with flowers,
晴朗无云的天空.

过去的! 它诉说着逝去的欢乐;
它回响着母亲的声音，
谁的声音是最纯洁的爱
常常会安抚孩子们的恐惧，
让哭泣安静下来，擦干眼泪;
或者，当她看到附近有危险时，
我们的粗心大意值得责备.

过去的! 它使我们想起
温柔的微笑，亲切的口音，
我们年轻时所爱的人;
Ere time had breathed his withering breath
在希望的花圈上，
Or friendship been dissolved by death,
或是谎言摧残真理.
现在告诉我们我们利记APP官网手机版;
过去的 but speaks of what we were,—
天真与欢乐.
礼物显示了一个忧心忡忡的人，
曾经设计过一些新的计划
获得权力或财富;
往事，盛开的少年.