Isabella Jane Towers [née Clarke]

(1790-1867)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Towers, Isabella Jane LBT ID: IsTower1867 VIAF ID: 46428432 LOC ID: no2002036589	B/BAP: 1790 DIED: 1867
SOURCES: Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); NCBEL; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Poet, author of books for children, and the sister of Charles Cowden Clarke; she contributed to Leigh Hunt's periodicals and published Perils in the Woods (1835) and other works.
REFERENCES TO Isabella Jane Towers [née Clarke]: Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke, 25 February 1828 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke, 25 February 1828 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Lamb Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 4