Vincent Novello

Mary Victoria Novello (later MCC ) was born in the same house as her father before her: 240 Oxford Street (then Oxford Road), London.

Vincent Novello , MCC 's father, was a music teacher, choirmaster, composer, and music publisher, who played the organ for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel at South Street, Grosvenor Square, London, for twenty-six years. There...

As her father established himself socially and politically within the Dalston community, she became involved in London's literary and intellectual circles. Among those she met, William James Linton , John Stuart Mill , and...

She had friends there, Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello .

She was pleased that her father , not long before his death, read her preface to her edition, and said, It does you great credit, my dear.

SFA also contributed to Vincent Novello 's Songs for the Months: this publication is obscure and no date is available.

MCC , her husband , and her brother Alfred (now retired) lived at Nice (which then meant living in Italy), with her widowed father and her sister Sabilla.

Following the death of MCC 's father , she and her husband , with brother Alfred and sister Sabilla, moved from Nice to Genoa.

In the 1860s, MCC published her biography of her father, The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello.

ES met her sister Maria at Genoa, where they visited the Novello family.