Recollections of Writers
Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, 16 April 1848
Devonshire Terrace, Sunday morning, 16th April, 1848.
Dear Mrs. Cowden Clarke,—As I am the
Stage manager, you could not have addressed your inquiry to a more fit and proper
person. The mode of address would be unobjectionable, but for the knowledge you
give me of that family usage,—which I think preferable, and indeed quite
perfect. Enclosed is Knight’s cabinet
edition of the “Merry
Wives;” ![]()
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from which the company study. I also send you a copy of “Love, Law, and Physic.” Believe me always
very faithfully yours,
Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke [née Novello] (1809-1898)
The daughter of the musician Vincent Novello, she married Charles Cowden Clarke in 1828
and wrote works on Shakespeare, including
The Complete Concordance to
Shakespeare (1845).
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English novelist, author of
David Copperfield and
Great Expectations.
Charles Knight (1791-1873)
London publisher, originally of Windsor where he produced
The
Etonian; Dallas's
Recollections of Lord Byron was one of
his first ventures. He wrote
Passages of a Working Life during half a
Century, 3 vols (1864-65).
