Writers Collection (page 3)

Enid Blyton autograph
Portrait of Enid Blyton (1897 - 1968), English childrens author together with her autograph which reads To Lesley. Date: c.1955

Mrs Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford)
The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd aka Nancy Mitford (1904 - 1973), British author, biographer and society figure. Pictured talking to Lord Stanley of Alderley

Noel Coward at Cannes
Noel Coward (1899-1973) at Cannes. His play This Happy Breed was due to premier in October. The outbreak of World War II caused this to be delayed until 1942. The play was turned into a film in 1944

Constance Smedley, founder of the Lyceum Club
Anne Constance Smedley, married name Constance Armfield, (20 June 1876 9 March 1941) British artist, playwright, author and founder of the International Lyceum Clubs. Date: 1903

Russian Literary Giants - Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky
Three Russian Literary Giants - (left) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Playwright and short story writer (centre) Count Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Mary Billington, journalist
Mary Frances Billington (6 September 1862 27 August 1925), English journalist and writer, whose collected articles on women were published as Woman in India (1895)

Aldous and Maria Huxley
The English author, Aldous Huxley with his wife, Maria. Date: 1930

Eve, columnist for The Tatler magazine
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine who was the alter-ego of Olivia Maitland-Davidson. Eve first appeared in The Tatler on 20 May 1914 (pictured here)

Portrait photograph of Leo Tolstoy. Russian writer famous for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina

Tolstoy and Gorky
The Russian writers, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), left, and Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), at Tolstoys rural house in Y snaya Poliana, 1908. Date: 1908

Auguste Vacquerie / Gill
Auguste Vacquerie (1819-1895) French journalist, poet, playwright and lifelong friend and relation to Victor Hugo (through the marriage of his brother to Lopoldine Hugo, the writers daughter)

Lady Conan Doyle, wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the novelist. She was the daughter of Mr James Blyth Leckie of Glebe House, Blackheath

Louis Sebastien Mercier
LOUIS SEBASTIEN MERCIER Caricature of French writer, who attacked all other writers, artists, architects and scientists, claiming they outmoded or worthless

Edward Carpenter
EDWARD CARPENTER - influential sandal-wearing nudism-favour- ing idealist, gay, vegetarian, sought to combine socialism with eastern religion. Major influence on many writers &c

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

Cartoon, Henry James Byron, dramatist
Cartoon of Henry James Byron (1835-1884), the English dramatist, editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor. Seen here surrounded by posters advertising plays by other writers

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

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

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)

Albert Verwey (1865-1937). Dutch poet. Portrait by Jan Veth
Albert Verwey (1865-1937). Dutch poet. Portrait, 1885, by Jan Veth (1864-1925). Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Cartoon, Butterfly Fever -- No Fees to French Authors. 1881

Cartoon, Burnand, Byron and Sims in hospital -- All In
Cartoon, three prominent writers ill in hospital -- F C Burnand (1836-1917), H J Byron (1835-1884) and G R Sims (1847-1922)

Home at Nohant / Geo. Sand
GEORGES SAND The writers home at Nohant Date: 1804 - 1876

Egyptian Public Scribe
A public scribe sets his hookah aside while he attends to his client in the streets of Cairo Date: 1849

Abel Boyer & Others
ABEL BOYER French writer in England, compiler of a French and English dictionary, depicted with portraits of writers of both nations Date: 1667 - 1729

Lamartine / Family Tomb
ALPHONSE-MARIE-LOUIS DE PRAT DE LAMARTINE French writers family tomb Date: 1790 - 1869

Lamartine / Childhood Home
ALPHONSE-MARIE-LOUIS DE PRAT DE LAMARTINE French writers childhood home, at Milly Date: 1790 - 1869

Lamartine / Birthplace
ALPHONSE-MARIE-LOUIS DE PRAT DE LAMARTINE French writers birthplace, at Macon Date: 1790 - 1869

Ow Holmes / Cambridge Mass
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES American writers home at Cambridge, Massachusetts Date: 1809 - 1894

Nath Hawthorne / Old Manse
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (originally Hathorne) American writers home, The Old Manse, at Concord, Massachusetts Date: 1804 - 1864

Goldsmith / Islington Midx
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Irish writers residence, Canonbury Tower, Islington, Middlesex Date: 1730 - 1774

Rw Emerson / Summerhouse
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Summerhouse in the American writers garden at Concord, Massachusetts: it was used by a neighbour, Bronson Alcott Date: 1803 - 1882

Rw Emerson / Home / Library
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers library at his home in Concord, Massachusetts Date: 1803 - 1882

Madame Alphonse Daudet
MADAME ALPHONSE DAUDET French writers wife Date: -

William Cowper / Eartham
WILLIAM COWPER English poet in his favourite seat at Eartham, looking towards the Isle of Wight, surrounded by other writers Date: 1731 - 1800

Samuel Johnson / Bolt Ct
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writers last home, at 8 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London Date: 1709 - 1784

Carlyle / Grave / Scotland
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish writers grave at Ecclefechan, Dumfries Date: 1795 - 1881

Carlyle / Birthplace
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish writers birthplace at Ecclefechan, Dumfries Date: 1795 - 1881

J Fenimore Cooper / Home
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER American writers home Date: 1789 - 1851

W Irving / Cottage / Hudson
WASHINGTON IRVING American writers cottage on the banks of the Hudson River Date: 1783 - 1859

Rw Emerson / Home / Harper
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers home at Concord, Massachusetts Date: 1803 - 1882

Rw Emerson / Home / St Nich
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers home at Concord, Massachusetts Date: 1803 - 1882

Rw Emerson / Old Manse
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers home at the Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts (where Hawthorne also lived for a time) Date: 1803 - 1882

Rw Emerson / Home / Miller
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers home at Concord, Massachusetts Date: 1803 - 1882

Rw Emerson / Concord Circl
RALPH WALDO EMERSON American writers home at Concord, Massachusetts Date: 1803 - 1882

Barbara Cartland in the Orkneys
Page from The Sketch magazine carrying photographs of novelist and socialite, Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901-2000), married name Mrs Barbara McCorquodale, pictured at Swanbistre

Florence Parbury, traveller and war worker
Florence Parbury, described by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as one of our most versatile and accomplished women, and a great traveller

Cover design, Womans Pictorial
Cover design, Dressing Up, by M Kemp Welch, Womans Pictorial magazine, 21 June 1924. Depicting a girl wearing improvised fancy dress. With items by Kitty McKane, Fannie Kilbourne and Gilbert Frankau

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