A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Clarke, Charles Cowden

by John William Cousin

Clarke, Charles Cowden (1787-1877).—Writer on Shakespeare, etc., friend of Keats, and a publisher in London. Latterly he lived in France and Italy. His wife, Mary C.-C. (1809-1898), dau. of V. Novello, musician, compiled a complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1844-45), and wrote The Shakespeare Key (1879) and, with her husband, Recollections of Writers (1878).