Literary Collection (page 13)

The Coiffing by Aubrey Beardsley, an illustration to his poem The Ballad of a Barber which was first published in The Savoy, volume III in July 1896

Anna Noailles Photo
ANNA-ELISABETH MATHIEU de NOAILLES French poet, prominent figure of the literary scene, photographed in 1930. Date: 1876 - 1933

William Jerdan - 2
WILLIAM JERDAN journalist, editor of the Literary Gazette with his autograph Date: 1782 - 1869

William Jerdan - 1
WILLIAM JERDAN journalist, editor of the Literary Gazette with his autograph Date: 1782 - 1869

Greenwich Lit Inst 1843
INSTITUTION Date: 1843

UNCLE TOMs CABIN, c1899. Lithograph poster, c1899, for Al W. Martins Mammoth production of Uncle Toms Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Alien invasion. Computer artwork of an alien tripod machine in London, England. Tower Bridge is seen in the background, crossing the River Thames. This artwork is based upon the H. G

Science book conceptual image
A book of Science

Charles Dickens, British author
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), British author. Dickens is famous as the author of novels such as Oliver Twist (1839), David Copperfield (1850) and Great Expectations (1861)

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish writer, essayist, historian, teacher and social commentator. Carlyle was raised as a strict Calvinist

CARROLL: ALICE, 1865. Alice encounters the enormous puppy: after the design by Sir John Tenniel for the first edition of Lewis Carrolls " Alices Adventures in Wonderland"

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Samuel Johson and James Boswell at the Literary Club, London, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

La Mancha, Spain. Don Quixote famously tilted at these windmills, thinking they were giants, overlooking La Mancha

Addison and Steele between them imagined a club. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele working on the first issue of The Spectator

Mrs Balchristie
Fancy dress costume idea from 1884 for Mrs Balchristie, a character from Sir Walter Scotts Heart of Midlothian. The costume comprises a dark dress, plain skirt, low square bodice

Miss Hardcastle
Fancy dress costume suggesting the character of Miss Hardcastle from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. The outfit comprises of a short skirt of olive green made plain

Francois Paul Meurice / Demare
Francois Paul Meurice (1818-1905) French dramatist and editor of the Evenement, founded by Victor Hugo to whom he was the literary executor, and edited his works (1880-1885)

Modern Athenians plate 25 - Edinburgh
The Hon. Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) a Scottish judge and literary critic, approaching Sir John Archibald, Lord Murray (1779-1859) a Scottish judge

Christina Foyle (1911-1999) English bookseller and owner of Foyles bookshop, she set up and ran the Foyles literary luncheons

America Celebrities, Literary Celebrities of New York. Willi
Portrait of William Briant, editor of the Evening Post from 1830, travel writer and poet

American celebrities, Literary Celebrities of New York, Geor
Portrait of American Historian, George Bancroft. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1800, he studied History at Havard and Gottingen Universities

Macdiarmid / Hugh / Morgan
HUGH MACDIARMID alias CHRISTOPER MURRAY GRIEVE Scottish poet who advocated a Scottish literary revival

Giosue Carducci / Ilz 1913
GIOSUE CARDUCCI Italian poet and Professor of literary history

Kit Cat Club
A gathering of the Kit-Kat Club, a London political and literary society which was the centre of opposition during Queen Annes Tory ministry (1710-14)

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ALFRED TENNYSON English poet

Agatha Christie, Scenes
AGATHA CHRISTIE scenes from her daily life when her first book has made her a literary sensation

George Steevens / Zoffany
GEORGE STEEVENS scholar and literary critic

Pearl Lenore Curran
American housewife of St Louis, who under the name Patience Worth authored several writings of remarkable literary force, purporting to be dictated by a spirit Date: 1883 - 1937

Vondel Honoured
The Dutch poet Joost van den Vondel is honoured with a literary and musical fete at Ruremonde, Netherlands

F. R. LEAVIS
F.R.LEAVIS Literary critic

DESHOULIERES (1638 - 169
ANTIONETTE DU LIGIER DESHOULIERES French writer, poet and saloniste

Stephen Spender
English poet, literary critic and editor, Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995)

Sir Herbert Croft
SIR HERBERT CROFT clergyman and literary figure, detained in France by Napoleon, wrote many and varied things, imprisoned for debt, dictionary compiler

Japanese Arrangement -16
HORNED ORANGE and ROSE used with a vase bearing the signature of Chien-lung to form an arrangement which expresses literary taste

Pierre Ronsard & Pleiade
PIERRE RONSARD French poet, depicted with the Pleiade, a literary group of which he is the leader

Ladies Literary Society
Reginas Maids of Honour - A ladies literary society gathering

James Macpherson, Scottish writer and politician
James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the " translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems (their authenticity has been disputed)

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