Science and Literature Linked: The Story of William and Lucy Clifford. 1845–1929

Abstract

A brief biographical outline of William Kingdon Clifford and his wife Lucy. Their life together in London. Their shared distinguished friends. William’s tragic early death. Lucy’s 50 years of widowhood. Her literary successes and her wide circle of eminent friends. William Kingdon Clifford’s Epitaph (written by himself.) ‘I was not, and was conceived: I loved and did a little work. I am not, and grieve not.’ Lucy Clifford’s Epitaph (from Shakespeare’s ‘King John’.) ‘O yes, such silver currents when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in.’