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Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

by Mary Cowden Clarke

This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of Ophelia from Hamlet, she creates a backstory for Shakespeare's tragic heroine, from her infancy to just before the action of Hamlet begins.

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Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke was an English author, and compiler of a concordance to Shakespeare. Mary Victoria Novello was born at 240 Oxford Street, London, 22 June 1809. She was the eldest daughter...

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