Clara Sophie Deneke (1847-1933) was an author. Her daughter was Margaret Clara Adèle Deneke (1882-1969), author and musicologist (details are given in Who Was Who).

Papers of Clara Sophie Deneke and her daughter Margaret, including:

• Literary papers of Clara Sophie Deneke, ca. 1900-20
• Correspondence of Clara Sophie and Margaret Deneke, and various other members of the Deneke family, 1902-66
• Correspondence and papers relating to the Oxford Ladies Musical Society, 1952-61
• Diaries of Margaret and Helena Deneke, 1914-33
• Typescript copy of memoirs of Margaret Deneke, ca. 1956, with photographs, and printed copies of her works, Ernest Walker (Oxford, 1951) and Paul Victor Mendelssohn Benecke (1954)
• Photographs of members of the Deneke family, their friends, and places associated with them, 1882-1969

The papers were given to the Library by the executors of Margaret Deneke in 1969.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44385-408.

Authors | 19th century

Authors | 20th century

English literature | 20th century

Diaries | 20th century

Deneke | Clara Sophie | 1847-1933 | Author

Deneke | Helena Clara | 1878-1973

Deneke | Margaret Clara Adele | 1882-1969 | Author and Musicologist

Oxford Ladies Musical Society