| Ref No | CROWE/PIC/F191857 |
| AltRefNo | F191857 |
| Collection | Catherine Crowe Collection |
| Title | The Crowe Album Volume 5 |
| Date | 1970 |
| Extent | 1 album |
| Description | Album with postcards and cuttings inserted. Each item is numbered and indexed.
Includes:
- [The two unmarried Misses Gaskell]
- Borough Green today - see bottom right-hand corner for part of the back wall of John Steven's farmhouse.
- Lilly Dawson smuggling territory.
- All Saints Church and Coronation Square, Lydd, Kent - probably the Combe Martin of Lilly Dawson.
- High Street, Lydd - summer; winter.
- Approach to Lydd.
- Dungeness today - clearly featured in Lilly Dawson.
- Darnaway Street is just off this aspect of Moray Place (Edinburgh) to the right - the distant exit is Doune Terrace, where Robert Chambers and his family resided at No. 1.
- Self-explanatory dust-wrapper - one of Shelley's dream women was his first wife, Harriet Westbrook, only 5 years younger than Mrs. Crowe - they were almost certainly acquainted.
- The distant prospect down Quarry Hill Road, Borough Green.
- Main entrance to Borough Green Farm ;on right, back-gates on left, contemporary cottage in between.
- Borough Green Farm - the back drive.
- The Edinburgh Church where John William Crowe married Euphemia Menzies 2nd. October 1849.
- Whiffen's Farm, the adjacent property in John Steven's day to Borough Green Farm.
- Terry's butcher's shop at Lydd - John Stevens was closely involved in property deals and possibly smuggling activity with the Kentish Terrys - the surname can be found far and wide today.
- A more distant view of No. 16. Nos. 13 - 16, 18 - 20 all photographed by Wyn Bergess.
- The waterfront at Gravesend is featured in Susan Hopley - though of course at an earlier date.
- The lawn, Holybourne, Alton, Hants., where Mrs. Gaskell died 12th. November 1865, only a few weeks after meeting Mrs. Crowe at Dieppe. The 2 groundfloor windows belong to the drawing-room, where she collapsed after afternoon tea.
- The side-entrance of the house, showing another drawing-room window.
- Self-explanatory - this programme was screened on I.T.V. 9 p.m. Friday, 24th. September 1976.
- Part of George Scharf's painting of The Strand, London, 1824 - this thoroughfare was later featured in The Adventures of a Beauty.
- Another external view of The Lawn drawing-room. Nos. 22, 23 & 26 photographs by G.L.
- Self-explanatory frontispiece to "Reminiscences of the Opera" by Benjamin Lumley, for 20 years Director of Her Majesty's Theatre, published Hurst & Blackett, 1864. Mrs. Crowe no doubt knew the author - but he cannot have been the Captain, later Major, Lumley with whom (and his wife) she and Agnes Loudon became such close friends.
- Self-explanatory caricature of Mrs. Crowe's close friend, George Combe, phrenologist.
- Modern Wiesbaden.
- Contemporary group of Lady Blessington's literary lady-friends - alas, no Mrs. Crowe! - but she knew Mrs. S. C. Hall and Harriet Martineau.
- The decoration awarded Lt.-Col. John Crowe in 1837.
- A favourite resort of Mrs. Crowe's.
- Mrs. Crowe would have seen many similar sunsets.
- A Phrenologist's model head - the organ of Wonder can clearly be seen above Ideality.
- Actor-manager, William Charles Macready, who met Mrs. Crowe dining with Sir William Allan in Edinburgh 20th. March 1846 and with Charles Dickens in London 28th. June 1848.
Bingen by moonlight - see also Vol. 2 (35) and Vol. 4 (47).
- Self-explanatory dust-wrapper featuring a detail from "Derby Day", 1858. Mrs. Crowe knew this artist and on Sunday 6th. April 1856 she and Agnes Loudon had a preview of Frith's main forthcoming Academy exhibit - "Many happy returns of the Day" or "The Birthday".
- Mrs. Crowe asked Robert Chambers (26th. September 1841) if he would accept a translation of Mr. Hamel's attempt to climb Mont Blanc for the Edinburgh Journal - "Coulet told me the story when I was at Chamonix, but not being then an author, I had made no notes of it." (Marie Coulet was a well-known Alpine guide.)
- The Pump Room at Bath, frequented by Mrs. Crowe on her visits to that city, especially in April 1858, when she met up with the Loudons - arriving in ill humour, but by the 12th. Of the month fine weather and congenial company had produced a beneficial effect on her spirits and temper; was Beau Nash, whose statue is featured in the niche, related to Mrs. Crowe's mother, who was born a Nash?
- Illustration by Daziell from the title-story of ARTHUR HUNTER & HIS FIRST SHILLING - with other tales (6th edn.); from "Expectancy; or, Help Yourself" in same collection.
Xerox of front cover of Routledge's "Yellowback" edn of LIGHT AND DARKNESS.
- Illustration from the end of SUSAN HOPLEY published by W. Nicholson about the turn of the century - probably the arrival of Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy and Susan at the King's Head inn, - Maningtree - to learn of the fate of their master and of the disappearance of Andrew Hopley; Andrew Hopley stopping the dangerous runaway horse that Walter Gaveston has persuaded Harry Leeson to ride - and thereby saving him from perhaps a fatal fall; unaware that she has possessed herself of a piece of lace, Mrs. Alicia Aytoun is accosted as she leaves Mr. Green's haberdashery.
See 43 - ditto xerox of THE NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE in same edn.
See 44 - 46 - Susan Hopley, awaiting late at night Mr. Wentworth's return from holiday, "sees" - in a half dream-like, half visionary state - the murders of her master and brother by Remorden and Dillon.
In the garden of this property Pope resided 1719/44. This was pulled down 1807, and a new one, built 100 yards to the north, was demolished 1840, when the "present gingerbread affair" was erected.
Illustration of Madame de Violane from Chapter VI of GERALD GAGE; OR THE SECRET in the original version of this novelette which appeared in The Illustrated London News. Coloured by G.L.
Mrs. Crowe met the Trevelyans through their close friendship with the Loudons.
Mrs. Crowe was on friendly terms with William Henry Wills for many years.
"Especially on some still and beautiful Sabbath evening, on the secluded country-roads near Duddingstone, or in the retirement of its woods,… his (Samuel Brown's) soul would outpoor itself in thoughts and words quick with power" - Dr. John Brown. This is a view of the Church.
Self-explanatory - Mrs. Crowe met and became friendly with Mr. and Mrs. Ward, both of whom were artists, through the Loudons.
As a frequent visitor to Dieppe, Mrs. Crowe was no doubt familiar with this Church.
Ditto.
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| Notes | Previous reference number: UKC/CROWE/PIC/F191857 |
| Compiled by Geoffrey Larken |
| Related Person | Crowe, Catherine Ann (1790-1872), novelist and writer on the supernatural |
| Gaskell, Julia Bradford (1846-1908) |
| Gaskell, Margaret Emily (b.1837-1913) called Meta |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865), novelist |
| Scharf, George (1788-1860), artist |
| Lumley, Benjamin, theatre director |
| Combe, George (1788-1858), phrenologist |
| Browne, Mary Campbell (1789-1849), Lady Blessington |
| Crowe, John William, soldier |
| Macready, William Charles (1793-1873), actor |
| Frith, William Powell, (1819-1909), actor |
| Trevelyan, Sir Walter Calverley (1797-1879) 6th Baronet, naturalist |
| Trevelyan, Pauline (d 1866) nee Jermyn, wife of Sir Walter Trevelyan |
| Wills, William Henry (1810-1880), author |
| Ward, Edward Matthew (1816-1879), artist |
| Related Organisation | Terry family |
| Fassnidge family |
| Related Place | Alton, Hampshire |
| Borough Green, Kent |
| Category | Photographs |
| Postcards |
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