Charles Cowden Clarke

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Standard Name: Clarke, Charles Cowden

Connections

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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. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Crosland, Camilla. The Diamond Wedding. Houlston and Sons, 1871.
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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, 1896.
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Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...
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, 1896.
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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, 1896.
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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, 1896.
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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
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mary...
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...
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...
Residence Mary Cowden Clarke
Following the death of MCC 's father , she and her husband , with brother Alfred and sister Sabilla, moved from Nice to Genoa.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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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...
Residence Mary Cowden Clarke
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.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC and her husband began work on a commission from Cassell and Co. for an annotated edition of Shakespeare .
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC published another collaboration with her husband which was, as far as he was concerned, posthumous: The Shakespeare Key.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Timeline

15 February 1830: The Lyceum Theatre in London burned to the...

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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.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
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17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...

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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.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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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.