She was a contributor to The Flag of Our Union, Rural New Yorker, as well as periodicals issued by the Seventh Day Baptists.

[1] At the age of fifteen, she began writing for publication, under the pen-name "Ida Fairfield," in The Flag of Our Union.

For several years her writings, both prose and verse, were principally given to periodicals issued by the Seventh Day Baptists, of which religion she was a member.

[3] She married William Lewis Clarke (1835–1920) on September 8, 1859, and removed to Ashaway, Rhode Island.

[2] He served as president of the Missionary Board,[4] and as a Massachusetts State Senator.