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Novello Cowden Clarke
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...
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).
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...
GIGLIUCCI, Porzia
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.
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 ...
Bell, John to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
25 Feb 1867
Letter from the sculptor John Bell to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, in which John describes his surprise at finding himself in Italy, having sailed for ten days from France. He records the beauty of...
Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles
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...
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...
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gigliucci, Porzia
18 Jan 1884
Handwritten letter from Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke to her niece Porzia Gigliucci, describing how she was thinking of her after she had left, through the arrangement of flowers and foliage they had ar...
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...
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia
1877-1893
Five letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, beginning with the immediate aftermath of the death of Mary's husband, Charles Cowden Clarke. The letters contain discussion...
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla
1873-1875
Letters between Mary Cowden Clarke and her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, dating from 26 August 1873 to 10 August 1875, while Mary was living at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, with her husband Charles...