Mary Cowden Clarke

Mary Cowden Clarke (née Novello) (22 June 1809 – 12 January 1898) was an English author.

She was the eldest daughter of Vincent Novello. In 1828, she married her father's partner, Charles Cowden Clarke, and worked with him on Shakespeare studies.

In the year after her marriage, Mary Cowden Clarke began her valuable Shakespeare concordance, which was eventually issued in eighteen monthly parts (1844–1845), and in volume form in 1845 as The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare, being a Verbal Index to all the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet. This work superseded the Copious Index to ... Shakespeare (1790) of Samuel Ayscough, and the Complete Verbal Index ... (1805–1807) of Francis Twiss.

Works

• Kit Bam's Adventures: or, The Yarns of an Old Mariner (1849)
• Concordance to Shakespeare 1846
• The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines 1850
• The Iron Cousin 1854
• Florence Nightingale 1857
• World-noted women; or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages. 1858
• Memorial Sonnets 1888
• My long life : an autobiographic sketch 1897

References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 78. 
• Clarke, Mary Cowden. (1851). The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. W.H. Smith (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00125-0)
• Clarke, Mary Cowden, ed. (1848). Shakespeare Proverbs. London: Chapman & Hall.
• "Clarke, Mrs. (Mary Victoria Novello, usually known as Mrs. Cowden Clarke)" The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archæology, Fiction, Etc. New York: Century Co, 1904.

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External links

• Image at the National Photo Gallery
• For Mary Cowden Clarke's works [1]

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