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Total number of records: 20

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection20
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection20

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SubjectCount
publishing20
family7
literature7
letter writing4
portraits4
printing4
printing methods4
editing3
illustration3
print media3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy6
London, United Kingdom6
New York, Usa2
Germany1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
New York (N.Y.)1

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189917
Up to 19993

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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...

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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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Press cuttings

1838-1911

Press cuttings relating to Clara Anastasia Novello, including performances, obituaries and reviews of the publication 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' edited by her daughter Valeria Gigliucci and publi...

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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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Editing

c. 1899

One loose manuscript and one bound manuscript in three volumes of Simon's Hehl's memoir, variously titled 'Memoirs of a German Student' and 'My Grandfather's Life', edited by his maternal granddaughte...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Peacock, H.B.

1843-1844

Two handwritten letters from Charles Cowden Clarke to the Manchester magazine editor H.B. Peacock, discussing various publishing matters inlcuding a submission to Punch and an article on the dimension...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Peacock, H.P.

1845-1848

Five handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to the Manchester magazine editor H.B Peacock, discussing how much she enjoys receiving his letters, his expression of sadness and struggles with heada...

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BC MS NCC/9/4/1 Proof engraving of Vincent Novello
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Proof engraving of Vincent Novello

c. 1840

Proof engraving on paper of a portrait of Vincent Novello, engraved by the Irish artist William Humphrys after an original painting by Edward Petre Novello, now in the collection of the National Portr...

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Prefaced list of works by Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke

Jan 1881

Printed list of published works by Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke with a preface on the spelling of Shakespeare's name by Mary Cowden Clarke.

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Index to the Shakespeare key

c. 1845

Printed index to the Shakespeare key by Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke.

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Original slips for 'The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare'

c. 1835

Original slips for 'The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare' in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, comprising part of the letters L, M, and R.

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