Born: 1811, United States (assumed)
Died: 1888
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
Eliza Clapp (1811-1888) was a prominent member of the Transcendentalist movement in 19th century New England and a poet and author. Her historic home on Percival St. is still standing.
At the urging of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clapp contributed several poems to the Transcendental magazine, The Dial. She was also a Sunday school teacher and included examples of her lessons in the book Words in a Sunday School. She published two other works, Studies in Religion and Essays, Letters, and Poems. Clapp moved to Percival Street after selling the house she had lived in with her parents, which was located where the Strand Theater is now. Her home on Percival Street was featured on the first episode of the GBH program, This Old House.