Asia Booth

Asia Frigga Booth Clarke (November 19, 1835 – May 16, 1888) was a 19th-century American writer.

Early years Asia Frigga Booth was the eighth in the family of ten children born to Junius Brutus Booth and his wife Mary Ann Holmes. Her famous brothers were Junius Brutus Booth Jr., Edwin Thomas Booth, and John Wilkes Booth (who later became the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln). Originally, her father, who admired all religions equally, had wished to name her "Ayesha" after Muhammad's wife, or "Frigga" after the Norse goddess, because she was born on a Friday. Aged two, she finally received the name "Asia". Asia was named for the continent where her father thought the Garden of Eden had been located.

Career On April 28, 1859, Booth married John Sleeper Clarke at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Asia Booth Clarke is buried in the family plot at Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore.