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Flying Officer W E Johns - Biggles stories in Modern BoyAdvertisement in The Modern Boy magazine for the forthcoming series of stories written by Flying Officer W. E. Johns concerning the wartime adventures of Captain James Bigglesworth
Nancy MitfordNancy Freeman-Mitford CBE (28 November 1904 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, English novelist, biographer and journalist
Algernon Blackwood & Alfred Taylor, WW1Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951), English author and playwright, particularly known for his supernatural fiction and ghost stories
Mrs Gerald Du Maurier & family including DaphneMrs Gerald Du Maurier pictured with her three daughters, Angela, Daphne and Jeanne. Date: 1920
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), versatile French born British writer of poetry, history, and essays. Date: 1914
Tatler cover - Rosita ForbesFront cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Rosita Forbes (1893-1967) British traveller and author (later Mrs. A. T. McGrath)
H. G. Wells by AutoriHerbert George Wells, aka H.G. Wells (1866 - 1946), English master of science fiction, wrote several classics before 1900: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
John Masefield (1878 - 1917), English poet, playwriter and fiction writer. Date: 1914
Barbara Cartland with mother Polly and daughter RaineNovelist Barbara Cartland (right) pictured with her mother Polly Cartland, and her daughter Raine (Mrs Gerald Legge), later Raine Spencer, wife of Earl Spencer
Richmal Crompton (1890 - 1969), English writer, best-known for her Just William series of books for children. Pictured in The Illustrated London News at the time her book
Hathersage Vicarage Victorian period
Haworth Parsonage Bronte Sisters handbill / poster Victorian period
Ellen Nussey Victorian period
Anne Bronte Victorian period
Mrs Gaskell in 1851
Rev. Patrick Bronte in 1860
Emdale - Birthplace of Patrick Bronte - Victorian period
George Murray Smith Victorian period
Anne Emily and Charlotte Bronte Victorian period
Thornton Vicarage near Bradford Victorian period
Arthur Bell Nicholls circa 1867
Madame Heger taken on 3rd September 1886
Haworth Church Victorian period
Haworth in 1857
Emily Bronte Victorian period
Charlotte Bronte Victorian period
Harriet Martineau Victorian period
Cunard Line, QE2 - celebration album in slip case coverCunard Line, Isle of Man Post Office QE2 Farewell Season Celebration. Limited edition 156 of 189 QE2 Farewell Season Celebration large 14.5 x 14 inches album in slip case cover
Last portrait of Algernon Charles SwinburneThe Last portrait of the British Victorian poet and author Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), who died on April 10th
Leading writers during the reign of King George VLeading authors and playwrights during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Wells, Galsworthy, Bennett, Shaw, Barrie, Buchan, Chesterton
J. B. Priestley and Joyce BarbourWriter J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) and actress Joyce Barbour (1901-1977), team captains in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939
Writer A. P. Herbert, bowlingWriter A.P. Herbert (1890-1971) bowling during an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939
Ursula Jeans and Alec Waugh, cricketingActress Ursula Jeans (1906-1973) and novelist Alec Waugh (1898-1981) in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939
Walter Greenwood and Ethel ManninWalter Greenwood (1903 - 1974), Salford-born English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel Love on the Dole (1933), talking to Ethel Mannin (1900-1984)
Sir Max Pemberton (1863 - 1950), popular British novelist, mainly of adventure and mystery stories. Pictured at a desk in the study of him at Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead
Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921), English writer, creator of Raffles, the gentleman burglar. Pictured seated at the desk in his study at his home in Pitt Street, London
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867 - 1906), English / American writerPearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867 - 1906), English/American writer, nom de plume: John Oliver Hobbes, pictured in her study, surrounded by bookcases as she writes at her desk
Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926), English playwright and novelist, with a special interest in Jewish themes. Pictured in his study
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), writer, historian, best known for his science fiction novels. Pictured in his study at his home, Spade House, Sandgate
Arthur George Morrison (1863 - 1945), English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in Londons East End, and for his detective stories
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853 - 1931), writer, pictured in a charming Arts and Crafts room at his home in Wimbledon. Part of a series in The Tatler of photographs of literary figures at home
Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932), Scottish writer, most famous for Wind in the Willows. Date: 1908
Edmonton ChurchView of Edmonton Church in 1790 A church has stood on the present site since the 12th century. The writers, Charles and Mary Lamb (authors of Tales from Shakespeare), are buried in the churchyard
Chairman of the Ypres Last Post Committee with buglesThe Ceremony of the Last Post, in which firemen buglers play the Last Post under the Menin Gate at 8pm each night is, in its simplicity, one of the most moving acts of Remembrance in the world
The prolific English author Edmee Elizabeth Monica Dashwood (1890-1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, and Lorna Lewis, British writer ()
Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887 - 1956), English writer, photographed at her London home in 3, Pembroke Studios. Kaye-Smith was known for her novels set in rural England, particularly Kent and Sussex
Sheila Kaye-Smith marrying Rev. Theodore Penrose FryNovelist Sheila Kaye-Smith marrying the Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, curate of Christ Church, St. Leonards, and eldest son of Sir John and Lady Fray, at St. Paul s, St. Leonards in October 1924
Contributors to The Throne magazine - portraits. 1906
