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Total number of records: 175

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items147
Archives27
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection63
English Literature29
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection28
Ripon Cathedral3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
literature175
poetry21
criticism20
publishing9
english literature8
gift giving8
rhetoric8
letter writing7
death7
english language7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy6
London, United Kingdom5
Sheffield (England)2
Great Britain2
New York (N.Y.)1
Nice, France1
United States1
Guernsey (Channel Islands)1
Englisch1
Evesham, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baillet, Adrien (1649-1706)13
Sallengre, Albert-Henri De (1694-1723)12
Desmolets, Pierre Nicolas (1678-1760)11
Bouterwek, Friedrich (1766-1828)11
Sallengre, Albert-Henri De11
Goujet, Claude-Pierre11
Goujet, Claude-Pierre (1697-1767)11
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim (1743-1820)9
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)8
Batteux, Charles (1713-1780)8

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From 160015
From 170060
From 1800100

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Up to 169915
Up to 179960
Up to 1899100

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1814-1856

34 handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, beginning with his imprisonment at Surrey Jail from 1813 to 1815 and going on to contain references to publications and events...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1852-1858

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1840-1856

Fifteen handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, dating from 20 February 1840 to 14 October [1856], with ten undated. The letter of 2 October 1856 is a copy in Mary Cowden C...

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Press cuttings on the 'Concordance to Shakespeare'

1844-1881

Seven press cuttings related to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke's 'Concordance to Shakespeare'.

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Shakespeare

1835-1890

Preparatory notes for Mary Cowden Clarkes publications 'The Concordance to Shakespeare', first published in parts in 1844-45 and 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales', fi...

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Lamb, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1821-1834

Ten letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke. All except the letter of 15 May 1829 are copies in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, with a memorandum detailing to whom the original letters had been ...

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Notes

1850-1883

Three verses and draft legends of Shakespeare's heroines by (Mary) Sabilla Novello.

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Watercolours

c. 1830

Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...

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Lectures on the history of literature ancient and modern (v.1)

Schlegel, Friedrich von (1772-1829); Lockhart, J G (1794-1854)

1818

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Lectures on the history of literature ancient and modern (v.2)

Schlegel, Friedrich von (1772-1829); Lockhart, J G (1794-1854)

1818

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