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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Brotherton Collection3

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letter writing3
photography2
photographs2
family2
leisure time activities2
theatre2
poetry1
print media1
publishing1
portraits1

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Genoa, Italy4
Nice, France2
London, United Kingdom2

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Novello, Emma Aloysia2
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Dickens, Charles1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
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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BC MS NCC/16/2/2 Carte de visite of Porzia Gigliucci as 'Thalia'
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Cartes de visite of Porzia Gigliucci as 'Thalia'

15 Nov 1873

Two cartes de visite of Porzia Gigliucci in the same pose, dressed as 'Thalia' from an 'allegorical prologue' as part of 'private theatricals' at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. The photographs were ta...

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BC MS NCC/18/2/2 Carte de visite of Valeria Gigliucci as 'Mirth'
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Cartes de visite of Valeria Gigliucci as 'Mirth'

15 Nov 1873

Two cartes de visite of Valeria Gigliucci as 'Mirth' from an 'allegorical prologue' as part of 'private theatricals' at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. The photographs were taken by G.B. Sciutto and Co...

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BC MS NCC/20/297 Emma Novello to (Joseph) Alfred Novello 8 July 1866 1
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Novello, Emma Aloysia to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1857-1880

Thirty three handwritten letters from Emma Aloysia Novello to her brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, concerning family financial arrangements, her aspiration to make a career as an artist, portraits she...

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BC MS NCC/20/306 (Joseph) Alfred Novello to Emma Novello 26 July 1866 1
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Novello, (Joseph) Alfred to Novello, Emma Aloysia

1866-1882

Five handwritten draft replies from (Joseph) Alfred Novello to his sister Emma Aloysia Novello. In the letter dated 26 July 1866 he writes that he did not see a resemblance to Richard Cobden in her po...

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BC MS NCC/4/8/3 Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke
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Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke

c. 1846

Two copies of an engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke in profile, signed Lossing-Barritt. The original drawing on which the print was based was by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello. Benson J. Lossing...

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