NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Letters

Correspondence between members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and their personal and professional networks. Together they illuminate both the everyday lives of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and the broader social, political, economic context in which they lived and worked. Major cultural figures of the Victorian period are represented here, including the writer and social commentator Charles Dickens (1812-70), the artist and designer William Morris (1834-96), the poets Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), John Keats (1795-1821), Mary Lamb (1764-1847) and Charles Lamb (1775-1834), the politician and manufacturer Richard Cobden (1804-65), the author Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65), the social reformer Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) and the writer Mary Shelley (1797-1851). Where items of correspondence had been inserted into books by their recipient or owner, the location has been preserved for context. Letters dating from 1837 to 1844 between Vincent Novello, Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, Emma Aloysia Novello and Clara Anastasia Novello and Sir John Trevelyan, 5th Baronet of Nettlecombe (1761-1846), are preserved on microfilm.

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