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Total number of records: 36

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection36
Brotherton Collection16

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing21
family19
poetry12
death9
publishing9
gift giving6
legal procedure5
photography5
drawing4
finance4

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy36
London, United Kingdom36
Nice, France2
Rome, Italy2
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Pisa, Italy1
Turin, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haines, Frederick5
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria4
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla2
Unwin, Thomas Fisher2
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dickens, Charles1
Gigliucci, Porzia1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180035

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189930
Up to 19996

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

12 Nov 1882

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Ann[e] Gilchrist, in which she grants permission to quote from her published recollections of the poet Mary Lamb for her forthcoming biography, but that s...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Holsworth, G.

16 May 1868

Handwritten draft of a letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to G. Holdworth of the journal All the Year Round, thanking him for the cheque for eight guineas as payment for her verse story 'The Yule Log' and...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

15 Aug 1881

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, recording her imminent return to Italy from London and her gratitude to Ollier for his letter about Percy and Mary Shelley.

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

28 Jan 1878

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, in which she begins by explaining that she uses his full name because to her, 'Mr. Ollier' refers to his father, the publisher Charle...

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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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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

3 Nov 1866

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, accepting an article for his journal All the Year Round. Dickens notes that the letter is written in haste and gives his reasons. He goes...

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BC MS NCC/11/2/1 Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)
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Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard. The reverse is inscribed with the following: 'Portrait of Mother & Father an enlarg...

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Scrapbooks

1846-1897

The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...

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Album with illustrations, greetings cards and prints

1879-1897

Album containing (Mary) Sabilla Novello’s illustrations to her sister Mary Cowden Clarke’s ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines' dated to 1879 and 1884. Also including Christmas, New Year a...

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GIGLIUCCI, Giovanni Battista

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).

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Photographs

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard.

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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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