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Total number of records: 295

Count of Record type

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Archives293
Objects2

Count of Collection group

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection295
Brotherton Collection178

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing132
family111
poetry79
photographs39
death35
photography33
gift giving30
portraits22
theatre21
publishing18

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy295
London, United Kingdom36
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Rome, Italy8
Florence, Italy7
Milan, Italy5
Turin, Italy4
Fermo, Italy4
Nice, France3
Birmingham, United Kingdom2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred11
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria10
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla10
Haines, Frederick7
Novello, Mary Sabilla6
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden6
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, Clara Anastasia3
Unwin, Thomas Fisher3
Ollier, Edmund2

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From 17001
From 1800289
From 19005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899277
Up to 199918

Archive Collection

Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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GIGLIUCCI, Giovanni Battista

1854-1891

Typescript of the autobiography of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and a photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello).

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NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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GIGLIUCCI, Porzia

1852-1873

A poem transcribed by Porzia Gigliucci and photographic portraits of her as a child and later as an adult, dressed as Thalia from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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Accounts

1896-1903

Mary Sabilla's accounts, expenses, receipts and invoices relating to her later years at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. They include domestic and municipal material, documents relating to the death and...

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Portraits of

1852-1873

Portraits of Porzia Gigliucci. One photographic reproduction of her portrait as a child and two cartes de visite dressed in the role of 'Thalia' from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa,...

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Portraits of

1852-1873

Portraits of Valeria Gigliucci. One photographic reproduction of her portrait as a child and one carte de visite dressed in the role of 'Mirth' from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, ...

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Events

1868-1877

Printed materials related to musical and theatrical events held by the Novello Cowden Clarke family at their home, Villa Novello, in Genoa, Italy.

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Villa Novello

c. 1860-1913

Photographs, cartes de visite and the visitors' book of Villa Novello in Genoa, in the Italian region of Liguria. Mary Cowden Clarke, her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and her brother (Joseph) Alfred ...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

30 Oct 1867

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, noting Dickens' forthcoming visit to America and sending their best wishes for his tr...

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