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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
