3-085-688 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Portraits of politicians and authors, 1898. 'Mr. S. F. Mendl, M.P.; Mr. W. W. Bramston Beach, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lord Charles Beresford, M.P.; the late Mr. Edward Harford; the late Mrs. Cowden Clarke; the late Sir Polydore de Keyser; the late Hon. William Gisburne; the late Rev. C. L. Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll"); the late Sir Joseph Terry. The death of Mrs. Cowden Clarke severs a link where links are few, between the present generation of writers and that which had Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, and Lamb among its brilliant company. Born in 1809, Mary Novello was the daughter of a musician, and one of her brothers founded the firm of musical publishers which needs nothing now by way of introduction for its familiar name. Her marriage with Charles Cowden Clarke not only brought her into contact with various great literary men who were his friends or acquaintances, but it set her to work herself on a career of busy, if minor, authorship. Her "Concordance to Shakspere" was followed by various other contributions to Shaksperean literature; and in her last book, "My Long Life" - she was in her eighty-ninth year when she died - she revived many old memories connecting her with names that lent a sort of secondary lustre to her own.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.