The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines; A Series of Fifteen Tales
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Hardcover. This creative imagining of the girlhoods of fifteen Shakespearean heroines is the work of Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), author of The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare and Shakespeare Proverbs, among others, and friend to Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt, and Charles and Mary Lamb. In setting..... More