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Archive Collection:
BC MS NCC

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...

Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/11

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).

Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/13

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...

Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/16

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.

Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/18

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 ...

Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/13/1

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...

Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/13/9

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...

Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/16/2

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,...

Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/18/2

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, ...

Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/19/4

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.

Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/19/22

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 ...

Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/020

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...