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

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...

The seventeen-year-old Mary Novello became engaged to the older scholar and critic Charles Cowden Clarke .

Mary Novello was married at Bloomsbury Church to Charles Cowden Clarke , a family friend more than twenty years her senior.

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.

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 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

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...

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 later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...