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Good articleClara Clemens has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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October 25, 2009Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 27, 2008.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens was saved from being dragged over a cliff by a horse by her future husband, the Russian-born concert pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch?

Birthplace

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The New York Times says in 1900 that she was born in Hartford, CT while in her obituary in 1962 they say Elmira, NY. I believe that Hartford is the correct place. It would be good to get more cites on this unclear point. WilliamKF (talk) 19:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Character

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I'm not an expert in Clara Clemens, but I've read a lot of her correspondence from after the 1940s. She gives the impression of being extremely eccentric, and even somewhat nutty. I've spoken to others who've had similar impressions of her character based on her correspondence. Is there nowhere written what she was like - whether these eccentricities were obvious to those who encountered her? -- kosboot (talk) 19:57, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good article? Really??

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In the name of all that's holy, how does an article whose lead contains She was married twice. First to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, and then after his death, she remarried to Jacques Samossoud followed by passage after passage such as At noon on October 6, 1909, she subsequently married Gabrilowitsch in the drawing room at Stormfield, the Clemens home with Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twitchell presiding (and that's by no means the worst) [1] manage to pass GA? [2] Who's minding the store? EEng (talk) 23:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody. Reassessment is thataway. AIRcorn (talk) 12:44, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]