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Total number of records: 49

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection49
Brotherton Collection17

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
publishing49
letter writing36
family12
literature9
poetry9
portraits4
printing4
printing methods4
gift giving3
music3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom24
Genoa, Italy15
Nice, France3
New York, Usa2
Hastings, United Kingdom1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
New York (N.Y.)1
Rochdale, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria8
Hunt, James Henry Leigh7
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden4
A.C. Armstrong and Son2
Holsworth, G.2
Unwin, Thomas Fisher2
Bickers and Son (Publishers)1
Bright, Jacob1
Brown, Charles Armitage1
Cowden Clarke, Charles1

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Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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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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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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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1814-1856

34 handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, beginning with his imprisonment at Surrey Jail from 1813 to 1815 and going on to contain references to publications and events...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1852-1858

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1854-1855

Twelve undated handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, concerning Hunt's writings for Novello's Musical Times, apologising for delays to his articles as a result of il...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

1822-1835

Nine handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, dated 2 March 1822 to [21 Nov 1835] with four undated. The letters contain social arrangements, dicuss his poetry and ill hea...

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Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke with Shakespeare

Mar 1851

Two copies of an engraving on paper of Mary Cowden Clarke being crowned with a wreath by Shakespeare while she writes, printed by Bobbett and Edmonds of New York after a drawing by her sister Emma Alo...

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Shakespeare

1835-1890

Preparatory notes for Mary Cowden Clarkes publications 'The Concordance to Shakespeare', first published in parts in 1844-45 and 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales', fi...

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Robertson, Henry to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1844-1847

Two handwritten letters from Henry Robertson to Mary Cowden Clarke, dated 9 April 1844 and 29 December 1847, praising Cowden Clarke's published scholarship on Shakespeare and asking if she will be pub...

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A.C. Armstrong and Son to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1888-1891

Six handwritten letters and two printed enclosures from the New York publishers and booksellers A.C. Armstrong and Son to Mary Cowden Clarke, mentioning publishing plans for 'The Girlhood of Shakespea...

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Bickers and Son to Littleton, Henry

1 Apr 1884

Handwritten letter from the publishers Bickers and Son to Henry Littleton, with a payment for £50 for 300 copies and the moulds for 'The Shakespeare Key' by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, with detai...

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