Novels Collection

Map of Wessex
A map of the Wessex of the novels

Guy de Maupassant, French writer
Guy de Maupassant ( Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant ), French writer of novels, short stories and poems

John Cowper Powys
JOHN COWPER POWYS English Author of novels such as Owen Glendower (1940), poetry, philosophical and critical works

Dickens Cartoon 1867
CHARLES DICKENS " Au Revoir" - Dickens is bidden farewell to by some of the characters from his novels

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

Dore, Paul Gustave (1832-1883). Don Quixote reading
" Dore, Paul Gustave (1832-1883). Don Quixote reading chivalresque novels. 1863. Illustration of " Don Quixote of La Mancha" (preface of the first part). Etching. SPAIN. Madrid

Nancy Mitford
Photograph of Nancy Freeman-Mitford on the front cover of The Tatler at the time of the anouncement of her engagement to Peter Rennell Rodd

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)

James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist and poet. 1921

John Ridd meets Lorna Doone
A scene from the novel set in 17th century Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore. Lorna, from the notorious Doone clan, meets John Ridd, destined to be her lifelong love. Date: 1937

Ant. Saint-Exupery
SAINT-EXUPERY SAINT-EXUPERY French aviator and writer. Author of novels and essays, most with an aviation theme

H G Wells, English writer
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), English writer, best known for his science fiction books. He also wrote contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary

Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer
Sarah Grand (real name Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke, 1854-1922), Irish feminist writer. circa 1900

Trollopes - Sambourne
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) English novelist: a satire on his Barsetshire series of novels

Hammond Innes, British novelist
Ralph Hammond Innes (1913-1998), British novelist, giving a speech at a dinner

Sheila Kaye-Smith - 3
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Writer, notably of novels about Sussex such as Sussex Gorse. Date: 1887 - 1956

Edith Oenone Somerville
EDITH ANNA OENONE SOMERVILLE Irish novelist pictured with her cousin Violet Florence Martin (Ross) with whom she produced a series of novels

Home of Charles Dickens in Devonshire Terrace, London
The home of Charles Dickens, English novelist, at 1 Devonshire Terrace, London

Sheila Kaye-Smith
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Writer; known especially for her novels set in Sussex

Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Kazakh-Soviet officer and author
Baurzhan Momyshuly (Momish-Uly) (1910-1982) - a Kazakh-Soviet military officer and author. As an author he wrote several books - military prose, stories and novels for adults and children

Ponson du Terrail, French novelist
Pierre Alexis, Viscount of Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871), French novelist, best known for his fictional character Rocambole. Date: circa 1860s

White Flowers
Painting of an array of white flowers, by the Queen of Roumania who is keenly interested in all the arts. She writes poems and novels, and, as seen here, is an artist with skill and a personal touch

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a group of men dining at a table, with a boy standing on the left. Date: first published 1850s

Monument to Daniel Defoe, Bunhill Fields, London
Monument (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 writer
Amelie 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

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

C P Snow, physicist, novelist and civil servant
C 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

Mervyn Stockwood, Barbara Cartland and Eric Heffer
Bishop 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 novelist
Mikhail 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 playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

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

Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels. Date: circa 1980s

Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republican
Brendan 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 nationalist
Compton Mackenzie (Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, 1883-1972), English-born Scottish novelist and nationalist. Aside from his writing he also worked as an actor

Graham Greene, English writer, in old age
Graham 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 poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

MRS ALEXANDER Annie French Hector) Irish wife of archeologist, after whose death she wrote nearly 50 novels and hymns including All things bright & beautiful Date: 1818 - 1895

GRAVE OF JEROME K JEROME
The grave of Jerome K. Jerome: author of Three Men in a Boat & other novels, in the church yard at Ewelme, Oxon. He died on June 14th 1927, aged 68 Date: 1988

Comic postcard, Girl reading a French novel Date: 20th century

The Way of an Eagle, by Ethel M Dell, published by Fisher Unwin, London Date: early 20th century

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

Steerforth and Mr Mell, David Copperfield
Steerforth and Mr Mell at Dotheboys Hall, in a scene from the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. 19th century

Fair Maids House, Perth, Scotland (a reference to Walter Scotts novel, The Fair Maid of Perth), with six tartans in the background: Cameron, Stewart, Mackenzie, Robertson, Gordon and Fraser

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a supposed sketch by Clive Newcome, following a visit to his step-grandmother

Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist. 19th century

Sarah Grand (1854 - 1943), Irish feminist writer active and author. Date: 1897

Alger Seeks Inspiration Date: 1950

Honore Balzac, Satirical caricature
HONORE DE BALZAC (1799 - 1850) French novelist and playwrite. Considered one of the founders of European Realism for his short stories

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