Recollections of Writers

Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke

ISBN 10: 0900000090 / ISBN 13: 9780900000096

Published by Centaur Press Ltd, 1969

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Recollections of Writers

Publisher: Centaur Press Ltd

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Edition: This edition.

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Synopsis:

Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877) and his wife Mary (1809-98) were born into literary and musical circles which deeply shaped their careers and supplied lifelong friendships with great artists and writers. Among Charles's closest school friends was John Keats, and his acquaintances later included William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Coleridge and the Shelleys. Mary's childhood introduction to Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare led to a lifetime of Shakespearean scholarship, friendship with the Lambs, and her performance in several Shakespearean roles for the amateur company run by Charles Dickens. Wed in 1828, the Cowden Clarkes were, as Mary writes, 'among the happiest of married lovers for more than forty-eight years', publishing jointly and enjoying mutual friendships. Their insightful recollections of their literary friends, first published serially towards the end of Charles's life, were afterwards collected by Mary, together with many important letters, and published in this 1878 work.

Book Description:

Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877) and his wife Mary (1809-98) enjoyed friendships with Keats, Dickens, Charles and Mary Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Coleridge and the Shelleys, among other great writers of the age. After Charles' death, Mary collected their insightful recollections and many important letters in this work, published 1878.