Clara Broughton Conant - this may be her;

From Notable American Women

Hannah O'Brien Chaplin September 5 1809 - Feb 18 1865
Married July 12 1830 Thomas Jefferson Conant, Professor of languages at Waterville College, Maine.
They had ten children, including Clara Broughton.

Another possibility;

From Ancestry website

John Conant; Born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA on 2 Feb 1773 to Ebenezer Conant and Lydia Oaks. John married Charity Waite Broughton and had 10 children. He passed away on 30 Jun 1756 [1856?] in Brandon, Vermont, USA.

Charity Waite Broughton; Born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA on 14 Jul 1772 to Waite Broughton. Charity Waite married John Conant and had 10 children. She passed away on 12 Dec 1851 in Brandon, Massachusetts [Vermont?], USA.

Clara Conant; Born to John Conant and Charity Waite Broughton.

Both families had links to writing and journalism.