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Total number of records: 111

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Archives110
Objects1

Count of Collection group

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection111
Brotherton Collection50

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family111
letter writing64
poetry25
gift giving16
death14
drawing8
emotions8
legal procedure7
photography7
private ownership7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy111
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
London, United Kingdom19
Rome, Italy5
Fermo, Italy4
Florence, Italy3
Birmingham, United Kingdom2
Milan, Italy2
Nice, France2
Germany1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haines, Frederick5
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria4
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred4
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla4
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden3
Gigliucci, Giovanni3
Novello, Clara Anastasia3
Gigliucci, Count Giovanni Battista1
Gigliucci, Giovanni Battista1
Gigliucci, Nerina1

Count of Earliest date

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From 17001
From 1800108
From 19002

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1899103
Up to 19998

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'The Sisters Mozley' by Mary Cowden Clarke

24 Mar 1867

Poem titled 'The Sisters Mozley' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 24 March 1867. The Mozley sisters were Charlotte and Edith, who married Giovanni Gigliucci an...

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'Answer to Twenty Questions...' by Mary Cowden Clarke

11 Apr 1867

Poem titled 'Answer to Twenty Questions asked by Miss Mozley' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 11 April 1867.

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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...

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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...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

22 May 1877

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, written on mourning paper following the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke on 13 March 1877. Mary accepts the invitation t...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

24 Jun 1879

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, describing her pleasure at the 'loan' of Clara's daughters Porzia and Valeria Gigliucci, presumably to assist her with a piece of ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

25 Apr 1881

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, which mentions Joseph Severn's final portrait of the poet John Keats, which Mary thinks she saw in 1878 and admired, even if she t...

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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...

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Explanatory note by Nerina Medici Gigliucci

1953

Explanatory handwritten note by Nerina Medici Gigliucci, titled 'Notes on places & people mentioned in these letters of 1873-74-75 of Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke to her sister [Mary] Sabilla Novello'....

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

26 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, thanking her for her letter and for attached letters and photographs of other family members. She notes that her husban...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

30 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, which describes an improvement to her husband Charles' health and an incident of noises caused by a fire nearby, which ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

31 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, which describes her joy at hearing her sister is happy and the family are well. She apologises for a brief letter as he...

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