Charles Cowden Clarke

MCC made a first, month-long trip to Italy with her husband and some of her family: they travelled out via Germany, the Rhine, and Switzerland.

In 1848 MCC may have contributed two pieces to A Book of Stories for Young People, along with Mary Howitt and Anna Maria Hall . But Richard D. Altick believes the stories The Princess...

MCC and her husband began work on a commission from Cassell and Co. for an annotated edition of Shakespeare .

MCC published another collaboration with her husband which was, as far as he was concerned, posthumous: The Shakespeare Key.

Mary Cowden Clarke published in volume form Recollections of Writers, by herself and her husband (who had died the previous year).

In the one-hundredth year since the birth of her husband, MCC , amid the sublime scenery of the snow-capped Alps around Brunnen, wrote her Centennial Biographic Sketch of Charles Cowden-Clarke

For twenty years from the date of their marriage, MCC and her husband lived with her parents, the Novellos, in London. Charles Cowden Clarke was perfectly one of the family, and used to teach...

MCC , her husband , and her brother Alfred (now retired) lived at Nice (which then meant living in Italy), with her widowed father and her sister Sabilla.

Following the death of MCC 's father , she and her husband , with brother Alfred and sister Sabilla, moved from Nice to Genoa.

MCC was a leading nineteenth-century Shakespearean scholar, who (in collaboration with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke ) annotated editions, compiled a concordance, and wrote a key or encyclopaedia, and on her own account produced an...

Despite her success, she remained sceptical about the value of theatre. She regarded it as an unworthy venture, a business which is incessant excitement and fictitious emotion . . . unworthy of a man; a...

Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke . Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt , then Percy and Mary Shelley and William Hazlitt .

Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare and Thomas Hood . Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley ; ML corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham

MCC 's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles and Mary Lamb , Leigh Hunt

MCC 's husband died at Villa Novello in Genoa on 13 March 1877 at the age of eighty-nine.