The seventeen-year-old Mary Novello
became engaged to the older scholar and critic Charles Cowden Clarke
.
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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.
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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.
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Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...
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
.
