Autograph letter signed Mary Cowden Clarke to: "Dear kind Friend" October 24, 1882.

ArchivalResource

Autograph letter signed Mary Cowden Clarke to: "Dear kind Friend" October 24, 1882.

4 p.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8038811

Wellesley College

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67h1mcx (person)

Mary Cowden Clarke was a British author and actress and one of the first significant female Shakespearean editors. Her family were intimates of Keats, Dickens, Fielding, and the Lambs. Working with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke, and on her own, she compiled an impressive body of work including the major Shakespearean concordance of her day. From the description of Mary Cowden Clarke letters and poem, 1872-1882. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848...

Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq6p8n (person)

William James Rolfe was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1827, the son of John Rolfe and Lydia Davis. After attending Amherst College from 1845-1848, he was principal and master of several high schools in Massachusetts. He later became a prominent Shakespearean scholar and textbook author. He earned master's degrees from Harvard University (1859) and Amherst College (1865). On July 30, 1856, he married Eliza Jane Carew; their three children were John, George, and Charles. Will...