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Robert Louis StevensonA portrait of Scottish novelist and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, best known for works including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Date: 1892
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
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, writer, poet and travellerLucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)was a prolific poet and novelist, penning more than 70 books. As well as being married to a man for fifteen years
Photograph of J B Priestley and daughters. Captioned, Mr J B Priestley, with two of his daughters, Sylvia and Mary, taken in the garden of his house at Highgate'
Agatha Christie and husband, reportage photograph on doorstep. From an article, Up the Rebels! - And Others'by Ericus
Nancy Mitford, formal studio portrait. With description, The Hon. Nancy Mitford; Whose latest novel, "Christmas Pudding" was seasonably published a month or so ago
Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), novelist and playwright, formal studio portrait smoking cigarette. Captioned, The After-Dinner Speaker Par Excellence
William Babington Maxwell (1866-1938) novelist and playwright, studio portrait in pinstripe jacket and tie. Captioned, The Author of "The Rest Cure": Mr W B Maxwell (Son of Miss Braddon)
Elinor Glyn, British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction (1864-1943). Studio portrait in formal gown with autograph
George Alfred Henty, English novelist and war correspondent Date: 19th century
John Buchan, Scottish novelist, historian and politician, by Imre Laszlo Unvardy aka Spy Junr Date: 1927
Monument to Daniel Defoe, Bunhill Fields, LondonMonument (erected 1870) above the grave of Daniel Defoe (1661-1731), English journalist and novelist, in Bunhill Fields, London. Date: 19th century
Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, American writerAmelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945), American novelist, poet and playwright, best known for two novels: The Quick or The Dead? (1888) and World's End (1914). Date: 1914
Victor Hugo - On deathbedVictor-Marie Hugo (18021885) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, writersKeith Spencer Waterhouse (1929-2009), English novelist, journalist and writer of TV series. Seen here (left) with his friend and co-writer Willis Hall (1929-2005). Date: 1960
Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist and essayistSalman Rushdie (Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, b 1947), British-Indian novelist and essayist. Date: circa 1980s
Alan Sillitoe, English novelistAlan Sillitoe (1928-2010), English novelist, best known for his novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), which was made into a film (1960). Seen here (right). Date: circa 1960s
Anthony Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriterAnthony Joshua Shaffer (1926-2001), English barrister, advertising executive, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, identical twin brother of the writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writerAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Date: circa 1940s
C P Snow, physicist, novelist and civil servantC P Snow (Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City Of Leicester, 1905-1980), English physicist, novelist and civil servant. Best known for his series of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers
Muriel Spark, Scottish novelistMuriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish novelist, best known for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Date: circa 1960s
Mervyn Stockwood, Barbara Cartland and Eric HefferBishop Mervyn Stockwood (1913-1995), Anglican Bishop of Southwark, with Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), English romantic novelist, and Eric Heffer (1922-1991), left-wing Labour politician
Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelistMikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Soviet Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his novel, Quiet Flows the Don. Date: circa 1960s
Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwrightFay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s
J B Priestley, British author, playwright and broadcasterJ B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984), British author, playwright and broadcaster. Date: circa 1970s
Stephen Spender, English poet, novelist and essayistSir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), English poet, novelist and essayist. Date: circa 1960s
Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopherIris Murdoch (1919-1999), Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels. Date: circa 1980s
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), British Conservative politician, Prime Minister 1868 and 1874-1880. Seen here sitting in a chair with a book on his lap. Date: circa 1870s
Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republicanBrendan Behan (Brendan Francis Behan, 1923-1964), Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and IRA volunteer
Compton Mackenzie, novelist and nationalistCompton Mackenzie (Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, 1883-1972), English-born Scottish novelist and nationalist. Aside from his writing he also worked as an actor
Hanif Kureishi, English writerHanif Kureishi (b 1954), English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. Date: circa 1980s
Graham Greene, English writer, in old ageGraham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 1904-1991), English author, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels focusing around Roman Catholicism and morality: Brighton Rock
Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poetSamuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969
Charlotte Despard, political activist and writerCharlotte Despard, nee French (1844-1939), suffragette, novelist and Sinn Fein activist. She was an active member of the Labour Party, and joined, in turn
Tariq Ali speaking under an NUJ bannerTariq Ali (b 1943), British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner and commentator. Seen here speaking under a National Union of Journalists (NUJ) banner. Date: 1991
SALMAN RUSHDIE In 1992 Anglo-Indian novelist, condemned to death for allegedly having blasphemed Islam in The Satanic Verses. Date: 1947 -
MARIA EDGEWORTH/HOMEMARIA EDGEWORTH Home of the novelist at Edgeworthstown, near Dublin, in the year of her death Date: 1767 - 1849
Thackeray - Palace GardensWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) English novelist's home in Kensington Palace Gardens, where he lived from 1862 until his death
Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford - ChairSir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Scottish novelist's empty chair at Abbotsford, after his death Date:
DICKENS/GADSHILLHIS HOME AT GADSHILL An exterior view of the house, Gadshill Place, in Kent, in the year of the novelist's death 1812 - 1870
EDITH ANNA OENONE SOMERVILLE (1858 - 1949), Irish novelist pictured in her hunting habit. Date: 1904
Rudyard KiplingJoseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). A portrait by Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) of an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist born in India
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)
Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863 - 1933), English novelist and playwright, best known for his novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. Pictured at work in his home at Savoy Mansions in London
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