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Total number of records: 7

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7
Brotherton Collection4

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oral reading7
letter writing4
poetry4
drawing3
family3
painting2
gift giving2
art collections1
art education1
mythology1

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Manchester, United Kingdom1
London, United Kingdom1
Manchester, United Kindom1

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Christie, Alexander1

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Christie, Alexander to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1848-1851

Handwritten letters and ink sketches from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke.

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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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Christie, Alexander to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

26 Nov 1848

Handwritten letter and ink sketch from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, noting that he had received her gift and intended to read it. He notes that her husband Charles Cowden Clarke ...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

7 Jul 1862

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing his comic anger at Mary and her husband Charles Cowden Clarke for attending a reading of his without first informing him.

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Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters

3 Dec 1869-15 Mar 1888

Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters of 1856 and 1858, initally aloud to her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and then alone after his death.

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Illustration from Keats' 'Isabella or The Pot of Basil'

c. 1830

Undated pencil and wash illustration from Keats' poem 'Isabella or The Pot of Basil' by Edward Petre Novello. The paper is mounted on cardboard and inscribed at the bottom with a quote from the poem: ...

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untitled watercolours [two illustrations with texts]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour illustrations by Edward Petre Novello. On the left is a representation of mythological creatures crawling out of the sea and on the right, a group of figures in an interior. They a...

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