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Total number of records: 33

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection33
Brotherton Collection25

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
gift giving33
poetry18
family17
letter writing8
drawing7
transcription7
writing6
illustration4
literature4
photography4

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy30
London, United Kingdom8
Rome, Italy3
Nice, France2
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Evesham, United Kingdom1
Florence, Italy1
France1
Milan, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden2
Novello, Mary Sabilla2
Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dickens, Charles1
Haines, Frederick1
Mahaffy, J.T.1
Mills, Isabella1
Mozley, Edith (Later Countess Gigliucci)1
New, Herbert1

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189929
Up to 19994

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Carte de visite of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

Jul 1868

Carte de visite of (Mary) Sabilla Novello by Giulio Rossi of Milan and Genoa, Italy. The sitter is shown in profile, seated at a desk with a quill in her proper right hand. Inscribed on the reverse: '...

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

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 ...

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Album with portraits, sketches and poems

1863-1873

An album containing portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics. The cover is embossed with a decoartive border and 'Album' in gilt lettering. A loose sheet written in blue ink records that the album was...

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Illustrations for 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1884

Illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, contained in a sketchbook with dark blue leather covers with gilt geometic details...

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Manuscript of fables by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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Sketchbooks

1838-1903

Two volumes of pencil illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, first published in 1851.

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Transcript of Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar' by Mary Cowden Clarke

Oct 1892

Transcript of AlfredTennyson's poem 'Crossing the Bar' by Mary Cowden Clarke for her sister Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (nee Novello), written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated October 1892.

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Ballad by Calverley transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

May 1875

Ballad from 'Fly Leaves' by Charles Stuart Calverley transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, and dated May 1875. Inscribed with the following: 'Copy written by Uncle Cha...

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Manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

27 Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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Photograph of Helene [?]

19 Oct 1897

Mounted photograph of Helene [?] by Perosini of Genoa, inscribed in ink to her friends Mary Cowden Clarke and (Mary) Cowden Clarke.

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Mahaffy, John Pentland to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

c, 1877

Handwritten letter from the classicist John Pentland Mahaffy to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, thanking her for the gift of a book.

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Transcript of Longfellow's sonnet 'Holidays' by Mary Cowden Clarke

26 Nov 1877

Transcript of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's sonnet 'Holidays' by Mary Cowden Clarke, copied for Amelia Mozley at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 26 November 1877. There is a p...

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