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Total number of records: 14

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection14
Brotherton Collection6

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SubjectCount
letter writing8
sculpture3
gift giving2
photographs2
portraits2
european literature2
vocal music2
poetry1
transcription1
study tours1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom5
Nice, France1
Geneva, Switzerland1

Count of People and organisations

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Novello, Vincent2
Sainton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen1
Stirling, Mary Anne (Nee Hehl, Afterwards Lady Gregory)1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Farrar, Eliza Ware1
'My Dear Lady' [Mary Sabilla Novello?]1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Darby, Eleanor1
Holmes, Edward [?]1

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From 17001
From 180013

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189912
Up to 19992

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Photograph of Lady Lamb

1874

Photograph of Lady Lamb, inscribed on the reverse.

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Press cutting of Lady Gregory

c. 1895

Press cutting with a photographic portrait of the actor Mary Anne 'Fanny' Stirling (née Hehl, later Lady Gregory), niece of Mary Sabilla Novello.

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Ladies Dress Association share certificate

24 May 1878

Ladies Dress Association share certificate in the name of Emma Aloysia Novello, dated 24 May 1878.

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Limerick beginning 'There was a young lady of Riga...' transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci

1 Feb 1893

Limerick beginning 'There was a young lady of Riga...' transcribed in red crayon by Valeria Gigliucci. Inscribed by her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke in black ink below: 'Copied for me by dear Valeria...' a...

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Holmes, Edward [?] to 'My Dear Lady' [Mary Sabilla Novello?]

c. 1840

Undated handwritten letter from 'E.H.' [possibly Edward Holmes] to 'My Dear Lady' [possibly Mary Sabilla Novello], confirming arrangements to meet and requesting to see Charley [possibly Charles Cowde...

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The Travelled Lizard

c. 1850

Manuscript copy of 'The Travelled Lizard. Written by a Lady: edited by Sabilla Novello. Written in a notebook with blue covers.

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Dickens, Charles to Novello, Clara Anastasia

16 Jul 1858

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Clara Anastasia Novello, requesting her advice for a young lady who wants to travel to Italy in order to train to be a professional singer, having already st...

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Farrar, Eliza Ware to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 Nov 1857

Handwritten letter from the author Eliza Ware Farrar to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing a gift and questioning whether she will be interested in the advice an American gave to young girls twenty years a...

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Stirling, Mary Anne (née Hehl) to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1870

Undated handwritten letter from the actor Mary Anne 'Fanny' Stirling (née Hehl, afterwards Lady Gregory) to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, requesting that he give the enclosed to his sister and noting that...

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Bauer, Juliette to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

13 Dec 1846

Handwritten letter from Juliette Bauer to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, noting that Juliette had received the papers sent to her by Mary and that she had shown them to several other ladies. She articul...

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Sainton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen to Novello, Vincent

13 Feb 1847

Handwritten letter from the singer and composer Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby to Vincent Novello, regarding his daugher Mary Cowden Clarke's proposal to erect a monument to Shakespeare, to be paid for...

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Gilchrist, Anne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

9 Nov 1882

Handwritten letter from Anne Gilchrist to Mary Cowden Clarke, requesting permission to quote from Cowden Clarke's published recollections of the poet Mary Lamb for her forthcoming biography. She asks ...

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