Essayist Collection

BORGES, Jorge Luis (1899-1986). Argentinian poet
" BORGES, Jorge Luis (1899-1986). Argentinian poet, narrator and essayist. " The Aleph". Losada publishing house (1952)."

Charles Baudelaire, French poet, essayist, translator
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, essayist, art critic, and translator of Edgar Allan Poe

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
Leo Tolstoy (Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and educational reformer

Portrait of Oscar Wilde - Irish Playwright sitting in chair
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) - Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. circa 1885

GEORGE ORWELL 1903-1950
GEORGE ORWELL (real name Eric Arthur Blair) English writer, fought in Spanish Civil War on the Republican side and gained fame with novels Animal Farm (1944) and 1984 (1949)

Street scene in Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland
A street scene in the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, showing people outside the shop of Allan Ramsay (not to be confused with his house, which is on Castle Hill)

Oscar Wilde
OSCAR WILDE - Irish playwright, essayist, poet and novelist. Date: 1856-1900

Sydney Smith / Morton Lith
SYDNEY SMITH English clergyman, essayist and wit

Rw Emerson / Sitting
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American essayist and poet

Leigh Hunt / 1815 Drawing
JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT - English poet and essayist and critic of Prince Regent

Emile Bergerat, French poet, playwright and essayist
Emile Bergerat (1845-1923), French poet, playwright and essayist. Date: 1869

August Strindberg
Portrait of Johan August Strindberg, he was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience. Date: 1912

Victor Hugo - On deathbed
Victor-Marie Hugo (18021885) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885

Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist and essayist
Salman Rushdie (Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, b 1947), British-Indian novelist and essayist. Date: circa 1980s

Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist
Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish novelist, best known for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Date: circa 1960s

Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist
Walter (Walt) Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist. Seen here in later life, in a photograph which he has signed and dated. Date: 1872

Stephen Spender, English poet, novelist and essayist
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), English poet, novelist and essayist. Date: circa 1960s

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936), English author, journalist and essayist. Chesterton was the author of some 63 books by the time of his death including biographies of Robert Browning

The Vale of Health
View of the Vale of Health, Hampstead, London. Those who wished to attract visitors or new residents invented and promoted the Vale of Health name, which was first recorded in 1801

Sir Richard Steele, pseud. Isaac Bickerstaff, (1672-1729) was an English essayist, dramatist, journalist, and politician, best known as principal author (with Joseph Addison)

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. Date: 1875

Richard Cumberland, English writer
Richard Cumberland (1732-1811), English dramatist, essayist, pamphleteer and novelist. 1809

William Hazlitt
(1778-1830). An English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. Date: 19th century

Ralph Griffith - English journal editor and publisher
Ralph Griffiths (1720-1803) - English journal editor and publisher. Founded Londons first successful literary magazine, the Monthly Review (17491845), remaining its editor until his death

Ricardo Palma (1833-1919). Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Portrait. Engraving. Colored

G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), English author, journalist and essayist. Chesterton was the author of some 63 books by the time of his death including biographies of Robert Browning

Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674)
John Milton (1608-1674). English poet. Paradise Lost, 1667. Title cover of an edition printed in London, 1727. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Caricature of Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright
Caricature of Oscar Fingal O Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. 1881

Addison / Thomson / Thurston
JOSEPH ADDISON English essayist, poet and statesman

Portrait of August Strindberg (1849-1912) by Carl Larsson
August Strindberg (1849-1912). Swedish writer. Portrait by Carl Larsson (1853-1919), 1899. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

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

Home of poet Leigh Hunt, Chelsea, London, England
The Home of James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer and central figure of the English Romantic Movement

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

Maurice Hewlett, English novelist, poet and essayist
Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), English historical novelist, poet and essayist. circa 1900s

John Churton Collins, British literary critic
John Churton Collins (1848-1908), British literary critic, journalist, essayist and lecturer. circa 1890s

Irving Washington
Three quarters head and shoulders portrait of American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat Irving Washington (1783-1859), facing left. Date: c1861

Francisco Navarro Villoslada (1818-1895). Spanish novelist and essayist. Monument

Adam Bernard Micki (1798-1855). Polish writer and political activist. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism. Monument by polish sculptor Cyprian Godebski (1835-1909). Neo-Classicist, 1898. Warsaw

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867). French poet. Image colored

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Russian writer. Totlstoy in his work room. Mancastropa engraving in The Artistic Illustration (1892). Colored engraving

Washington Irving (1783-1859). American author, essayist, biographer and historian. Colored engraving

Walt Whitman (1819-1892). American poet. essayist and journalist. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881). British writer. Colored engraving

LOWELL, James (1819-1891). Poet, essayist and American diplomat. Colored engraving

Vi?ctor Hugo (1802-1885). French writer, exponent of the Romantic movement in France. Colored engraving

HEINE, Heinrich (1797- 1856). German writer
HEINE, Heinrich (Du?sseldorf, 1797-Paris, 1856). German writer. Engraving by Weger and Singer, 1885. Coloured

Feijoo, Benito Jeronimo (1673-1764), Spanish essayist
Feijoo, Benito Jeronimo (Casdemiro, 1673-Oviedo, 1764), Spanish essayist. Colored engraving

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