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Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
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Archive Print part

Romeo and Juliet : a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1778

Two columns to a page.

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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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Ollier, Edmund to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1871-1881

Handwritten letters from the journalist and writer Edmund Ollier to Mary Cowden Clarke, concerning his work and travels, her happiness about his notices of her work on Chaucer in the Daily News, her g...

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Archive Sub-series

Events

1868-1877

Printed materials related to musical and theatrical events held by the Novello Cowden Clarke family at their home, Villa Novello, in Genoa, Italy.

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A Shakespearian Acrostic Charade

6 Feb 1869

Printed programme for a performance of 'A Shakespearian Acrostic Charade' at Villa Novello in Genoa, with a prologue by Mary Cowden Clarke.

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Cartes de visite of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as a housemaid

c. 1870

3 cartes de visite of (Mary) Sabilla Novello dressed in the character of a housemaid in 'The Goose with the Golden Eggs' by Giulio Rossi of Milan and Genoa, Italy. She holds a brush in her proper righ...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Family

1739-1950

Material relating to the Novello, Cowden Clarke and Gigliucci families which is not attributable to a single member of the family. Includes financial and legal records, creative collaborations between...

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Watercolours

c. 1830

Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...

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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...

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