In the one-hundredth year since the birth of her husband, MCC
, amid the sublime scenery
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of the snow-capped Alps around Brunnen, wrote her Centennial Biographic Sketch of Charles Cowden-Clarke
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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.
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Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...