Author Collection (page 17)

Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927), popular English writer, author of Three Men in a Boat, pictured at a writing desk in his home at Goulds Grove, Wallingford. Date: 1903

The Babes in the Wood, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
The Babes in the Wood, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Christmas 1907. Both as Drury Lane manager and part author (with Frank Dix) of the pantomime

The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw, first produced Malvern Festival, August 1929, then The Queens Theatre, September 1929. Touring to the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells, June 1930

Sir Squire Sprigge
Sir (Samuel) Squire Sprigge (1860-1937), Medical editor and author, pictured in The Tatler in 1930 by which point he had been editor of The Lancet for thirty four years

The Rev. J Dodd (author of A History of Canon Law)
The Rev. J Dodd (author of A History of Canon Law in Conjunction with Other Branches of Jurisprudence: with Chapters on The Royal Supremacy and the Report of the Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts)

Victorian scrap - Radical press
Victorian scrap - Political Types - Liberty of the Press, Freedom of Speech - Radical Press. late 19th century

Thomas Moore, Irish poet
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet. early 19th century

Cartoon, The Sailor and His Lass -- Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, holding his newborn baby daughter, with the midwife in the background. 1883

Cartoon, The Gaiety Rocket, Pinero
Cartoon, The Gaiety Rocket, with a caricature of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director, whose play, The Rocket

Portrait, the late Mr Frank Green
Portrait, Frank William Green (1842-1884), pantomime author. 1884

Portrait, the late Mr Charles Reade
Portrait of the novelist and dramatist Charles Reade (1814-1884). 1884

Cartoon, G F Rowe, American playwright
Cartoon of the American playwright, G F Rowe -- Yankee Freedom. 1883

Booklet cover, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Are We Heading For War? published by the Labour Party in 1934. Date: circa 1933

Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), English novelist

John Keble Bell (Keble Howard) editor of The Sketch
John Keble Howard, 1875-1928 (pen name Keble Bell), one-time editor of The Sketch magazine, author of the magazines column, Motley Notes.Also wrote under the pen name of Chicot. Prolific author

Mark Twain - American writer
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - American author and humorist (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Date: circa 1900

Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) - About to enter a Government Office. Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdon from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Date: 1940

Pamela Hansford Johnson
Portrait of Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow (1912 1981) - English novelist, playwright, poet and critic. 1967

Christopher Hibbert, writer, historian and biographer
Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008), English writer, historian and biographer, seen here at his desk in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. 1960s

Portrait of Henry Sambrooke Leigh, author and playwright
Portrait of Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883), author and playwright. 1883

Samuel Rogers, English poet
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), English poet. circa 1825

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer and traveller
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish writer and traveller. circa 1880s

Richard Watson Gilder, American social worker and writer
Richard Watson Gilder (1814-1909), American social worker and writer. circa late 19th century

Reverend Thomas Maurice, oriental scholar
Reverend Thomas Maurice (1754-1824), British oriental scholar, historian and antiquary. 1800

Paul du Chaillu, French-American traveller
Paul du Chaillu (1831-1903), French-American traveller, zoologist and anthropologist. circa late 19th century

Sir Jeffrey Gilbert, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), English barrister, judge and author, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland and England from 1725 until his death. circa 1710s

James Payn, English novelist and editor
James Payn (1830-1898), English novelist and editor. circa 1880s

Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys (Dodie) Smith (1896 - 1990), English novelist and playwright, author of the plays Autumn Crocus and Dear Octopus and the books, I Capture the Castle and One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Sir John Vanburgh (1664-1726) - Writer and Architect. Date: circa 1710

Roundabouts and Swings
Illustration to Patrick Reginald Chalmers verses I met a painted caravan adown a dusty lane, a Pharaoh with his wagons comin jolt an creak an strain. Date: 1930

Brighton Motor Trials - Miss Dorothy Levitt
Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt (1882-1922) in her 80 hp Napier at the Brighton Motor (Speed) Trials, on 21st July 1905. Levitt was the first British woman racing driver

Voltaire (1694-1778). French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Portrait. Engraving by Etienne Fiquet (1719-1797). Colored

Mr Augustine Birrell. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection. Was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916

Poster, Angel Pavement, by J B Priestley
Poster, Angel Pavement, a novel by J B Priestley. circa 1930s

A. Wallis Myers - tennis journalist
Arthur Wallis Myers CBE (24 July 1878 17 June 1939), English tennis correspondent, editor, author and player. He is considered to be one of the leading tennis journalists of the first half of

Comedies by Titus Maccius Plautus. Engraving. Paris, 1759. C
Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184). Latin playwright. Engraving of his Comedies. Paris, 1759. Colored

Earths Sphere according the author. Engraving in Poeticon Astronomicon, by Gaius Julius Hyginus (ca.64 BC-17 AD). Edited in Venice, 1485. Incunable

The Roman de la Rose. Miniature. Folio 2. By Guillaume de Lo
Guillaume de Lorris (1200-1240). French scholar and poet from Lorris. Author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose. Miniature. Folio 2. Library of the University of Valencia. Spain

Miquel dels Sants Oliver i Toira (1864-1920). Spanish writer. Portrait by Joan Piza. Town halll of Palma de Mallorca. Balearic Islands. Spain

Ovid (43BC-17 / 18 AD). The Amores (Love Affairs). Lyon, 1639
Ovid (43BC-17/18 AD). Roman poet. The Amores (Love Affairs). Lyon, 1639

Stella Gibbons
Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 19 December 1989), English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), American poet, journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. Date: circa 1870s

Mary Agnes Hamilton
Miss Mary Agnes Hamilton(1884-1966), politician and author, Labour MP for Blackburn from 1929 to 1931. Pictured here in 1932 at the time of her appointment to the Board of Govenors of the BBC. 1932

Donald Mackenzie Wallace, English civil servant and writer
Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841-1919), English civil servant, newspaper editor and foreign correspondent. circa 1900s

Kate Douglas Wiggin, American educator and author
Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), American educator and author of childrens stories, best known for her novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. circa 1900s

Flora Annie Steel, English writer
Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929), English writer, best known for novels set in British India. circa 1900s

Pasquale Villari, Italian historian and politician
Pasquale Villari (1827-1917), Italian historian and politician. circa 1890s

William Clark Russell, English writer
William Clark Russell (1844-1911), English writer best known for his nautical novels. circa 1900s

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