£40
Cowden-Clarke, Mary.: Honey from the Weed. Verses. 1881. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy with signed and dated photograph of the writer laid down on verso of front free endpaper. Tipped in are 3 photographs of Greek nationals in traditional dress identified on versos in a later hand. Original decorative blue cloth rubbed, light foxing to prelims. Best known for her Concordance to Shakespeare, Mary's early years were spent amongst her parents' circle of artistic and literary friends including John Keats, Leigh Hunt and Charles and Mary Lamb. Mary Lamb encouraged her literary interests, schooling her in Latin and poetical reading and Leigh Hunt later introduced her to Charles Dickens who persuaded her to act in the amateur productions he was promoting to raise funds for a permanent curatorship of Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford -on - Avon. [William St Clair estate]
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