William Shakespeare

MCC finished work on her book The Complete Concordance to Shakspere on this day, her mother's birthday.

MCC issued in eighteen monthly parts The Complete Concordance to Shakspere.

Mary Cowden Clarke published the work for which she is principally remembered, The Girlhood of Shakespeare 's Heroines; in a series of fifteen tales.

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

MCC and her husband finished work on their annotated Shakespeare ; two days later they began on The Shakespeare Key.

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...

Once established as a scholar, MCC staked out a territory as a critic in On Shakespeare 's Individuality in His Characters, a series of articles carried by Sharpe's London Magazine during 1848-51. She...

At the request of James T. Fields she wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 about a curious house that she saw while house-hunting in Genoa: to her regret the magazine...

The theoretical essay with which FPC headed Josephine Butler 's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than...

AC 's occasional writings include a serious self-examination in rhythmical prose entitled The Character of Mrs C—n by Herself, which begins: Born with too much sensibility to enjoy ease, / With high ideas of...

MEC was educated at home. She read widely during her childhood, including works by Shakespeare and Malory . She studied poetry, history and drawing. Saturday afternoons were spent with friends, acting scenes from Scott 's...

Reportedly, during the earliest stages of her illness, she was found resting on the sofa and reading Shakespeare . Life is worth living, she told her family, as long as there is King Lear to...

By the time she reached twenty, MEC was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare for The Theatre.

That same year MEC composed A Clever Woman, a poem detailing its female speaker's heartbreak upon realizing that her intellect has made her beloved view her as if she were a platonic male companion...

Most of the stories are reprinted from periodicals. The book also includes excerpts from s and journal entries, as well as notes taken during Greek classes with William Cory , and six unpublished poems. A...