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Total number of records: 58

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection58
Brotherton Collection20

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
publishing58
letter writing42
family17
poetry10
literature9
royalties5
music5
portraits4
gift giving4
printing methods4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom26
Genoa, Italy18
Nice, France3
New York, Usa2
Rochdale, United Kingdom1
New York (N.Y.)1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
Germany1
Hastings, United Kingdom1
Florence, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria8
Hunt, James Henry Leigh7
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden4
Unwin, Thomas Fisher4
Littleton, Augustus3
Gigliucci, Valeria2
Gigliucci, Giovanni2
A.C. Armstrong and Son2
Holsworth, G.2
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180054
From 19004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189949
Up to 19999

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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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Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Press cuttings

1838-1911

Press cuttings relating to Clara Anastasia Novello, including performances, obituaries and reviews of the publication 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' edited by her daughter Valeria Gigliucci and publi...

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BC MS NCC/20/024 Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, letter (1870), page 1
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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

1848-1870

Twenty two handwritten draft letters and copies of letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens, mentioning shared social occasions, participation in rehearsals and theatrical performances, offe...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Wills, William Henry

1867-1868

Two handwritten draft letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to William Henry Wills, the first dated 17 March 1867 thanks Wills for the cheque for five guineas and communicates that any further payments can ...

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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 Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1854-1855

Twelve undated handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, concerning Hunt's writings for Novello's Musical Times, apologising for delays to his articles as a result of il...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

1822-1835

Nine handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, dated 2 March 1822 to [21 Nov 1835] with four undated. The letters contain social arrangements, dicuss his poetry and ill hea...

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Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke with Shakespeare

Mar 1851

Two copies of an engraving on paper of Mary Cowden Clarke being crowned with a wreath by Shakespeare while she writes, printed by Bobbett and Edmonds of New York after a drawing by her sister Emma Alo...

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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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Editing

c. 1899

One loose manuscript and one bound manuscript in three volumes of Simon's Hehl's memoir, variously titled 'Memoirs of a German Student' and 'My Grandfather's Life', edited by his maternal granddaughte...

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