Charles Cowden Clarke

In the one-hundredth year since the birth of her husband, MCC , amid the sublime scenery of the snow-capped Alps around Brunnen, wrote her Centennial Biographic Sketch of Charles 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...

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

MCC later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...