Death of Mrs Clere

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 61, 31 October 1885, Page 3

Death of Mrs Clere

Seldom have we to chronicle the death of a person who has been living in our midst more widely known than Mrs Clero. In the religious world her books, which were written same years ago, had a large circulation, and we feel that rather more than a passing notice should be taken of her loss. Those that had Mrs Clere's personal acquaintance knew her to be a. reanark&ble lady. It is, however, in her writings that her individuality is felt. Her first book, "The Colonel's Daughters," written in order to raise money for a church building, soon ran through two editions. Her next look, " The Apostles of Jesus," has become so far a standard work as to be placed upon the Christian Knowledge Society's list. " Bethlehem's Three (Naomi, Ruth, and Mary), ■which was published the year after the last named book, was very well received by the press and by the public This work was succeeded by •*• Kotberine Gordon," and this again hy u The Latter Days of Judah, and her Fall/* a book which, perhaps, wg eao. best notice by an extract from Public Opinion, which says : — Mrs Clew, ia. her recent work, " The Latter Day« of Judah, and her Fall," following the example of her earlier and successful books, presents the reader with a picturesque narrative of the iall of the Kingdom of Judah, embracing in detail the life and times of the prophet Jeremiah. The Biblical Account is enlarged, and all its Allusions exemplified in the most «harmingmanner, the authoress vividly exhibiting the incidents of her story iutkfully." Mrs Clero was the daughter of the late Mr John Vaughan, the head of the firm of Vaughan, lingard and Taughan, solicitors, of Stockport, Kanohester, and London, and who was for many years Town Clerk of the first named place. — Taranaki Herald.