Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | 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 |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | 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... |
Friends, Associates | John Keats | 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
. Mary... |
Dedications | Camilla Crosland | Camilla Crosland
published another volume of poetry, The Diamond Wedding: A Doric Story, and Other Poems; she dedicated it to Charles
and Mary Cowden Clarke
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Crosland, Camilla. The Diamond Wedding. Houlston and Sons. prelims |
Textual Production | Mary Cowden Clarke | In the one-hundredth year since the birth of her husband, MCC
, amid the sublime scenery Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 243 Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 243 |
Author summary | Mary 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | 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 |
Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 10 |
Residence | Mary 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's husband
died at Villa Novello in Genoa on 13 March 1877 at the age of eighty-nine. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 166 |
Textual Production | Mary Cowden Clarke | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | The seventeen-year-old Mary Novello
became engaged to the older scholar and critic Charles Cowden Clarke
. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 45 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | Mary Novello
was married at Bloomsbury Church to Charles Cowden Clarke
, a family friend more than twenty years her senior. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 62 |
Travel | Mary 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. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 131-2 |
Residence | Mary Cowden Clarke |
Timeline
15 February 1830: The Lyceum Theatre in London burned to the...
Building item
15 February 1830
The Lyceum Theatre
in London burned to the ground; Mary Cowden Clarke
and her husband
had left the theatre a few hours earlier after attending a performance.
17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...
Building item
17 February 1847
The Whittington Club
(named after the poor boy who became Lord Mayor of London) held its first meeting. Unlike traditional gentlemen's clubs, it welcomed women and lower-middle-class men.
Texts
Clarke, Charles Cowden, and Mary Cowden Clarke. Recollections of Writers. Sampson Low, 1878.
Clarke, Charles Cowden, and Mary Cowden Clarke. The Shakespeare Key. Sampson Low, 1879.