Clara Sophia Jessup Bloomfield-Moore (February 16, 1824 – January 5, 1899) was an American philanthropist and philosopher.

Biography

She was born in Westfield, Massachusetts. She married businessman Bloomfield Haines Moore (1819-1878) and resided in Philadelphia from the date of her marriage onward. Clara Moore Following the death of her husband she moved to London, where she eventually died in 1899.New York Times obituary
/ref> She organized in Philadelphia a hospital relief committee during the

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and assisted in the foundation of the Temperance Home for Children. She and her husband had three children: Ella Carlton Moore (1843–1892),

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(1852–1936), Lilian Stuart Moore (1853–1911). They were the grandparents of Swedish

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and

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Philosophy

Her books on etiquette connected the

perennial philosophy The perennial philosophy ( la, philosophia perennis), also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a perspective in philosophy and spirituality that views all of the world's religious traditions as sharing a single, metaphysical trut ...

to social behavior; for instance, she described harmony as the basis of good manners: "the secret or essence of good manners, as of goodness in all other things, consists in suitableness, or in other words of harmony." She promoted a "science of social intercourse" consisting of "the means through which people meet each other, maintaining harmony and peace in their relations, and securing the greatest possible amount of pleasure and comfort to all." This philosophy was subsequently applied to physics. Her book on

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was written because she believed that ether could account for the operation of the motor invented by

John Ernst Worrell Keely John Ernst Worrell Keely (September 3, 1837 – November 18, 1898) was a fraudulent American inventor from Philadelphia who claimed to have discovered a new motive power which was originally described as "vaporic" or "etheric" force, and later ...

, to whose Keely Motor Company she gave liberally in order that he might develop his idea.

Selected works

* ''Miscellaneous Poems'' (1875) * ''On Dangerous Ground'' (1876), a romance * ''Sensible Etiquette'' (1878) * ''Ether the True

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'' (1885) * ''Social Ethics and Social Duties'' (1892)

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Clara Jessup 1824 births 1899 deaths American romantic fiction writers 19th-century American poets Writers from Philadelphia American women poets Women romantic fiction writers 19th-century American women writers People associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art 19th-century American philanthropists