Mary Cowden Clarke

Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), born Novello, was the daughter of the music publisher Vincent Novello and in 1828 married Charles Cowden Clarke. She compiled The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1845), the first of its kind in English, and wrote The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines.

Her poem “At Midnight of ‘All Souls’” was included by Elizabeth A. Sharp in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).