She was the Paris fashion correspondent for the British newspaper The Times from the early 1910s until 1937,[1] also writing articles about topics including the theatre, the arts, and Parisian life.
She was born Maria Elvins Pountney in Great Barr, Staffordshire, England, 1869.
After the death of their parents, the siblings travelled in Europe and visited Paris.
On 19 August 1903, Maria married Herbert Edward Clarke, an English publisher living and working in Paris, owner of the Imprimerie Vendôme at 338 Rue St-Honoré.
Herbert died in 1931, and Moma Clarke lived in Paris until 1937, when she returned to Britain.