This list of books and papers written by Clarence will be developed with time, hopefully to include significant unpublished works in museums and the family collection. The first list here includes works about Clarence Bicknell or closely-related subjects and is compiled by Marcus Bicknell. Then there are three further lists created by Dr. Giovanni Russo

Like many a younger son of a moneyed 19th-century family, Clarence Bicknell went into the Church. This was a matter of genuine and felt devotion. At Cambridge University he was much influenced by an enthusiastic group of young churchmen. Soon after he had graduated in 1865, his 23rd year, he took orders in the Church

Castérino is today a hamlet of half a dozen hotels and assorted farms and houses in a beautiful flat valley at 1,565 metres altitude to the West of Tende. For many tourists, hikers, cyclists, skiers, archaeologists and botanist it is the favourite gateway to the Merveilles and the whole of the Mercantour area. The road

Clarence Bicknell in Bordighera.   In 1950, St-Tropez became famous by the arrival of movie stars. Bordighera was invented by a different charm of a different era. The foundation of the town of Bordighera dates back to 1470. The palm trees earned the town the name “the Jericho of Italy.” Its public celebrity was launched by novelist

Writing Clarence Bicknell expressed himself in many ways; in his disciplines like botany and archaeology, in his collecting and recording which underpinned those two disciplines, his art (especially botanical), his beliefs (Christianity, Esperanto and pacifism in that order), his friends (the visitors’ book at the Casa Fontanalba and his activities in Bordighera bear witness) and

CLARENCE BICKNELL (1842-1918) This list of dates helps the reader situate Clarence’s life  alongside other world and local events.  1838 Queen Victoria crowned 28 June 1838 The first photograph taken, by Louis Daguerre in France and William Henry Fox-Talbot in Britain.Clarence’s father Elhanan began to buy the works of art which were to form one of

The  mini-biography below was written by Peter Bicknell in 1988 and has been on this page of the website since 2013. In 2018 the authorised biography was published in book form, MARVELS: The Life of Clarence Bicknell, Botanist, Archaeologist, Artist by Valerie Lester. The book is available for sale on this web site (click on Shop),