Wrote Collection (#3)

First Duke Devonshire
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, first Duke of DEVONSHIRE influential statesman, serving Charles II and the protestant cause, supporting William III. He also wrote good verses. Date: 1640 - 1707

Jacques Delille - 4
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, One of the Forty of the Academie Francaise - judging by the ornaments in this engraving, he wrote of rustic matters. Date: 1738 - 1813

John Dennis, Caricature
JOHN DENNIS playwright and critic - more successful at the latter than the former; made enemies of Swift and Pope, but wrote well on Shakespeare. Date: 1657 - 1734

Robert Charles Dallas
ROBERT CHARLES DALLAS Jamaica-born writer, best known for his association with Byron, about whom he wrote a volume of reminiscences. He lived mostly abroad. Date: 1754 - 1824

Samuel Dale, Medical
SAMUEL DALE Medical practitioner at Braintree, Essex where he wrote his Pharmacologia. Date: 1659 - 1739

Louis De Crillon
LOUIS BALBIS de BERTON de CRILLON, French soldier to whom Henri IV wrote Pends- toi, brave Crillon, nous avons combattu a Arques et tu n y etais pas ! Date: 1541 - 1615

Don Trueba Y Cozio
Don TELESFORO de TRUEBA Y COZIO Spanish writer, author of The Exquisites, which he very thoughtfully wrote in English. with his autograph Date: 1805 - 1835

James Cobb, Playwright
JAMES COBB - Secretary in the East India Co. who wrote many mediocre stage pieces, mostly musical comedies but including an operatic version of Paul et Virginie, best forgotten. Date: 1756 - 1818

CLEOBULUS One of the Seven Sages of Greece, famous for the beautiful shape of his body. He wrote some verses, and was presumably pretty bright. Date: 694 - 564 BCE

Casimir Bonjour, Writer
CASIMIR BONJOUR Popular French playwright, who wrote in verse. Date: 1795 - 1856

Nicholas Biddle
NICHOLAS BIDDLE American financier, president of Bank of the United States, involved in political controversy, resigned & wrote a history of Lewis & Clark. Date: 1786 - 1844

MARY BERRY - Writer, devoted friend (with her sister Agnes) of Horace Walpole, whose works she edited; she also wrote plays, one of which was with- drawn for its lax morality. Date: 1763 - 1852

Henry Belfrage
HENRY BELFRAGE Prominent Scottish churchman, precocious child who began preaching at age 10 : he wrote many books on religion in family life and the like. Date: 1774 - 1835

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH American author and editor, wrote The story of a bad boy some novels and books of poems. Who now reads him ? Date: 1836 - 1907

WILLIAM HAYLEY 1745-1820
WILLIAM HAYLEY English Poet. Wrote Triumph of Music (1804) and Ballads founded on anecdotes of animals (1805). Date: 1745 - 1820

Mark Ridley
MARK RIDLEY medical, found favour at the Russian court as doctor to Tsar Boris Godunov, returned to England, wrote scholarly books on magnetism and such Date: 1560 - 1624

John Hawkesworth - 1
JOHN HAWKESWORTH English writer. Wrote the play Edgar and Emmeline in 1761. Date: 1715 - 1773

Frances Sheridan (1724 - 1766) - author, wrote first novel at age 15, subsequent writings praised by Johnson, staged by Garrick : also produced Richard Brinsley Sheridan

William E Channing
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Influential American clergyman, known as the Apostle of Unitarianism, wrote about social and philanthropic issues Date: 1780 - 1842

Samuel R Crockett / V Fair
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT Scottish novelist who wrote in dialect Date: 1860 - 1914

th Huxley / St Johns Wood
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY English scientists home at 4 Marlborough Place, St Johns Wood, where he wrote many of his works Date: 1825 - 1895

WILLIAM HICKS (D. 1660)
WILLIAM HICKS Puritan, who fought enthusiastically as a captain in the Civil War, wrote one or two things Date: 1621 - 1660

Sterne - Cpxwould Yorks
Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768) Coxwould, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, home of the novelist and clergyman: this is where he wrote Sentimental Journey

Sterne Coxwould Yorks
Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768) Coxwould, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, home of the novelist and clergyman: this is where he wrote Sentimental Journey

George Eliot / Richmond
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home of the English novelist at 8 Park Shot, Richmond, where she wrote Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Date: 1819 - 1880

Aristomachus
ARISTOMACHUS Greek writer of Solos, who observed, loved and wrote about bees : no one seems to know exactly when he lived Date: BC

John VI Cantacuzenus
JOHN VI CANTACUZENUS Eastern Emperor (1347-54), ruled in Constantinople, but was driven out and retired to a monastery, where he wrote a history Date: 1292 - 1383

Henry Liddell
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL English classical scholar ordained in Anglican church. It was for his daughter Alice that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. Date: 1811 - 1898

Therese V Braunschweig
THERESE VON BRAUNSCHWEIG Cousin of Guiccardi and also a great love of Beethoven. It is accepted that she was the Immortal Beloved to whom he wrote his famous letter

Francis Beaumont / Evans
FRANCIS BEAUMONT English dramatist Wrote commendatory verses for the plays of Ben Jonson Date: 1584 - 1616

Avro 683 Lancaster wrote its name into history with its breaching of the Ruhr dams

DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Bernal (1496-1584). Spanish conquistador. He wrote The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. Cover of The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. 1632

Suffragette Arson Whitekirk. St. Marys in Whitekirk, East Lothian, after the fire of 26th february 1914. Suffragette militants were suspected, and, as the churchs minister wrote

Suffragette Arson Hurst Park. Shows the destroyed Grand Stand at Hurst Park Racecourse, 8th June 1913, caused by an arson attack by militant suffragettes Kitty Marion (1871-1944) and Betty Giveen

Sunset somewhere in. WWI drawing
Sunset somewhere in. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Just a few lines hoping you are in the best of health. I wrote you a few days ago and expect you will have received some ere this. Love. Yours always. B

Waiting to have his shirt examined. In the hands of the Louse Patrol. Somewhere in France. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Enclosed you will find 14 PCs which I hope you will like also the programme of

Folio of 24 hand-coloured images - WWI
A folio of 24 hand-coloured i, mostly titled. And one original watercolour of a field stable in the British lines, France, c. 1917 - 7.5 x 12. Signed number 11 of 25

Among the English Lines Folio
A folio of 24 hand-coloured i. And one original watercolour of the artists friend, Claire de Pratz (author and friend of the artist) reading soldiers letters

Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616), English dramatist Wrote commendatory verses for the plays of Ben Jonson

Carla Serena Traveling
CARLA SERENA Italian traveler who wrote books about her travels in the East : depicted traveling in Mingrelia, Georgia. Date: circa 1870

Carla Serena
CARLA SERENA Italian traveler who wrote books about her travels in the East. Date: circa 1870

Sir William Schwenk Gilbert - English parodist & librettist
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911), English parodist and librettist. Gilbert wrote Christmas burlesque and humorous poetry

Frances Anne Kemble
FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE - actress playwright and poet, daughter of Charles K. married but divorced an American planter, wrote 8 vols of autobiography. with her autograph Date: 1811 - 1893

Leon Bloy Photo
LEON BLOY French writer, convert to Catholicism in whose cause he wrote several nauseatingly sentimental works, photographed in 1895. Date: 1846 - 1917

Margueritte Photo
PAUL MARGUERITE and his brother VICTOR (1866 - 1942) French writers who frequently wrote in collaboration : photographed with a bevy of females in 1900. Date: 1860 - 1918

Proudhon Photo
PIERRE JOSEPH PROUDHON French journalist and socialist, regarded as the father of anarchism. Wrote extensively on political subjects. Date: 1809 - 1865

Annie Wilson
ANNIE WILSON - innkeepers wife and guide to Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh, where she perpetuated such legends as the Apprentices Pillar. Burns wrote a poem in her praise. Date: CIRCA 1780

Christoph Wegleiter
CHRISTOPH WEGLEITER German churchman and theologian who also wrote songs at Altdorf Date: 1659 - 1706

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