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Katherine Mansfield, pen name of Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp (1888-1923) short story writer born in Wellington, New Zealand. Mansfield in 1914
The Ghost of Christmas Present appearing to Scrooge. Illustration by John Leech (1817-64) for Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, London 1843-1834
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (1829 -1896) Ophelia
The Revenge under command of Sir Richard Grenville (c1542-91) engaging Spanish fleet off Flores. Cut off from English fleet, fought until overwhelmed 1591
Mr Pickwick slides. Illustration by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne - 1815-1882) for Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, originally published in London, 1836-1837
Abaddon angel of the bottomless pit, Mammon god of this world and personification of wealth and miserliness and Ashtaroth the demon. From Francis Barrett The Magus London 1801
Mr Fezziwigs Ball, illustration by John Leech for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens( London)Mr Fezziwigs Ball, illustration by John Leech for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens( London, 1843). This novella was the earliest and most popular of Dickens Christmas stories
Rachel Verrinder telling Franklin Blake, to his amazement, that she saw him taking the Moonstone. Illustration by Arthur Fraser (active 1865-1898) for The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (London, 1890)
Maggie Tulliver, having cut off her hair and run away from home, is offered a share of the gypsies stew. Illustration by Walter James Allen (active 1859-1891)
Cassandra: legendary Greek prophetess, daughter of Priam, king of Troy, and Hecuba. Rejected Apollos advances, so he made it so that no one believed her prophecies, even though usually true
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde first published 1886. Mr Hyde letting himself in after his nights adventures to take the antidote
The smith threatening Leonard Holt because he will not obey the Lord Mayor sThe smith threatening Leonard Holt because he will not obey the Lord Mayors instructions that all dogs must be killed to prevent the spread of the Plague
Marleys ghost appearing to Scrooge. Illustration by John Leech (1817-64) for Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, London 1843-1844
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet and dramatist. Photograph from Men of Mark, London c.1880. Woodburytype
Bleak House by Charles Dickens in 1852-1823 the novel which satirised the misery caused by the old Chancery court. The cunning old lawyer Tulkinghorn who finds out Lady Dedlocks secrets
Hetty Sorrel, beloved of Adam Bede, meeting the young squire Arthur Donnithorne in the woods. Hetty has his child and is convicted of infanticide and condemned to death
Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Final Problem Strand Magazine, London, 1893.Illustrated by Sidney E.Paget (1860-1908), first artist to draw Holmes
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author and lexicographer
Sarah Siddons (born Kemble - 1755-1831) English actress. Mrs Siddons as Lady Randolph in John Homes tragedy Douglas at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1784. Sutherland plays Old Norval
Blaize, the grocer Bloundels porter, testing all the patent cures he has purchased to protect himself from the plague. Plague of London - 1665
Adam Bede, the village carpenter, in the workshop, his dog Gyp on a pile of shavings under the bench. Adam Bede by George Eliot, first published 1859
Shakespeare King Lear first performed c1605 Lear, betrayed by his daughters Goneril and Regan and confused by rage, powerlessness and ill-treatment, comforted by his youngest daughter, Cordelia
Shakespeare Othello Act 5: Desdemona and Emilia lie dead, Othello has stabbed himself and Iago is taken prisoner. 19th century engraving
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English novelist and short story writer. Maugham in the 1920s
Mr Thomas Hardy composing a lyric, 1913. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet, was born and lived most of his life in Dorset. Beerbohm shows Hardy on a heath in his beloved Wessex
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde first published 1886. Dr Jekyll trying desperately to find the chemicals that will enable him to cast off his Mr Hyde persona
Chowles the coffin maker and Judith Malmayns the plague nurse, dying with their stolen treasure as they are overcome by smoke and molten lead from the burning Old Saint Paul s
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) English orientalist and explorer. Photograph publishedStafford Henry Northcote, first Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) English statesman. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1874. In 1876 he became leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons
Dante, guided by Virgil, in third gulf of the eighth circle, observes those guilty of simony suffering burning, buried head first with just legs and feet exposed
Christmas Eve at Mr Wardle s. Mr Pickwick kisses a lady under the mistletoe bough. Illustration by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne - 1815-1882) for Charles Dickens Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English poet, classical scholar and linguist. Professor of history and modern languages, Cambridge, 1768. Refused the appointment as Peot Laureate, 1757
Will watching and listening at his friends deathbed. Illustration by John Everett Millais (1829-1896) English artist and founder member of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Amabel Bloundels body being carried from the Earl of Rochesters house into the dead cart for burial in the plague pit. Plague of London (1665)
The Duel: Captain Disbrowe dying trying to defend his wifes honour from St Paul Parravicin (sheathing sword. Illustration by John Franklin (active 1800-1861)
William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing, play first performed c1598. Dogberry, Constable of the watch, instructing his clerk to write down replies given by Conrade and Borachio: Act 4 Sc 2
Jane Austen (1775-1817) c1810, 1902. English novelist remembered for her six great novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey
E (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) British novelist specialising in espionage and international intrigue. From Wills cigarette cards Famous British Authors, 1937
The Red Shoes Fairy story by Hans Christian Andersen. Karen in her magic red shoes, unable to stop and hear what angel says because they compel her to dance and dance. Chromolithograph c1880
Gulliver walking about on the table at the inn as Glumdalcitch, his little Brobdingnagian nurse commanded him. Chromolithgraph from an early 20th century Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels published
Tom and Maggie Tulliver being run down by machinery from Dolcote Mill that has broken away in the flood, They die in a close embrace
William Brodie (d1788) prosperous Edinburgh cabinetmaker. Brodie had secret life as leader of gang of burglars. Hanged for robbing Excise Office in Edinburgh
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne in the Fancy Portraits series from Punch, London, 22 July 1882
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author. From a photograph taken in Samoa where Stevenson settled in 1889
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet. Longfellows house, Tinted lithograph from the cover of a setting of his poem The Old House by the Lindens (The Open Door)
Marleys ghost appearing to Scrooge. Illustration for Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A Christmas Carol, London 1843-1844
Ada Rehan (1860-1916) Irish-born actress, c1890. Here in the breeches role of Rosalind inAs You Like Itby William Shakespeare. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery. (London, 1890-1894). Photograph
Virginia Woolf (born Stephen - 1882-1941). English novelist, essayist and critic. Photograph
Battle scene from a manuscript of Homer Iliad c300 AD. Biblioteca Ambrosiana Milan
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