Special Collections Department Letters to Lucy Clifford Manuscript Collection Number
Accessioned : Purchase, July 1995.
Extent : 8 items (.1 linear ft.)
Content : Letters.
Access : The collection is open for research.
Processed : August 1995 by Anita A. Wellner; revised January 2002. for reference assistance email Special Collections or contact: Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Table of Contents
Scope and Contents Note
Contents List Biographical Note The English children's writer, novelist, and dramatist Lucy Lane Clifford (Mrs. W. K. Clifford) was born in 1846. On April 7, 1875, Lucy Lane married mathematics professor and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford, whom she met while studying art in London. The Cliffords' home became a gathering place for distinguished literary and scientific persons of the day, including Charles Darwin, Herbret Spencer, John Tynall, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leslie Stephen, Violet Hunt, and George Eliot. After the death of William Clifford in 1879, the friendships that she developed with George Eliot, Henry James and others not only continued but flourished. George Eliot, who was one of several persons who contributed to a small Civil List pensin arranged to support Lucy Clifford and her two daughters, encouraged Clifford to find comfort in activities such as her writing. | |
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