Marian Hooper Adams

Marian Hooper Adams
At Beverly farms in 1869
Born	Marian Hooper (1843-09-13)September 13, 1843 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 6, 1885(1885-12-06) (aged 42) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Other names	Clover
Spouse	Henry B. Adams (m. 1872)

Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams (September 13, 1843 – December 6, 1885) was an American socialite, active society hostess, arbiter of Washington, DC, and an accomplished amateur photographer.

Clover, who has been cited as the inspiration for writer Henry James's Daisy Miller (1878) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881), was married to writer Henry Adams. After her suicide, he commissioned the famous Adams Memorial, which features an enigmatic androgynous bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to stand at the site of her, and his, grave.

After Clover's death, Adams destroyed all the letters that she had ever written to him and rarely, if ever, spoke of her in public. She was also omitted from his The Education of Henry Adams. However, in letters to her friend Anne Palmer Fell, he opened up about his 12 years of happiness with Clover and his difficulty in dealing with her loss.^[1]