Clara Mallowdene
Dressmaker across the Passage from Ambrose’s shop.
Look closer at the illustration ↗Clara’s work is on the other side of the street from Ambrose’s bench. Clothes and shoes pass through neighbouring hands, and the people making them have lives beyond their shops.
An evening at the Three Lanterns brings Clara and Ambrose into a different kind of company. There is music, conversation and a floor to dance on before the walk home.
Clara also sends cleaning and dyeing work up the Passage to the Quennells. A finished gown can carry the work of several neighbours before its owner puts it on.
People they know
Ambrose Peverell · From the illustrated world of Candlebury Ambrose Peverell
Her neighbour and dancing partner
Clara's dressmaking shop is opposite Ambrose's workshop. They dance at the Three Lanterns and walk together on Sundays.
Places in their stories
Amberwick Passage
A London street that slopes towards the river, one lit window after another.
Ambrose and Clara in the workshop, from Ambrose the Cobbler and His Dancing Shoes.
Ambrose’s cobbler’s shop
Number 42, Amberwick Passage, with a carved boot above the door.
Clara at her shop door, after the dance.
Clara’s dressmaking shop
Across from the cobbler’s, a lit shop window and rooms upstairs.
Stories
Ambrose and His Dancing Shoes
A pair of dancing shoes draws Ambrose Peverell out of his workshop and towards an evening with Clara Mallowdene.
With Ambrose Peverell, Clara Mallowdene