Writers Collection (page 4)

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

Contributors to the Bystander Christmas Number 1929
Advertisement IN The Bystander magazine for its forthcoming Christmas number with contributions from artists and writers whose portraits are featured - Miss Storm Jameson, D. B

John Buchan (1875-1940) Scottish author and administrator, as an officer (rank Colonel) during World War One. Date: 1919

Suffrage Actresses Franchise League. Programme of an Entertainment and Pageant of Famous Men and Women. B.C. 7, 000 - A.D 2914 Arranged by the joint committee of the Actresses Franchise League

Suffragette Elizabeth Robins. Elizabeth Robins (1862) actress and supporter of the womens suffrage movement. She was involved with the Women Writers Suffrage League

Cicely Hamilton Suffragette and Writer. Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) portrait. Member of the Womens Freedom league, co-founder of the Women Writers Suffrage League

Suffragette Women Writers Suffrage League. The W.W.S.L was founded in 1908 by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton. This shows a banner designed for the league in 1909 by William Henry Margetson

H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), English writer, sociologist and historian. Date: 1914

James Garvin
James Louis Garvin (1868 - 1947), influential journalist and writer, editor of the Observer from 1908 to 1947 and of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Date: 1914

H. G. Wells and his war game, WW1
H.G.Wells playing Little Wars. His book of the same name, published in 1913, described a set of rules for playing with toy soldiers

Lady Percy, WW1
Countess Percy, formerly Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and later Duchess of Northumberland. She married Earl Percy in 1911. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1918

Charlie Chaplin and Ian Hay
Charlie Chaplin being interviewed in his studio by, on the right, Major Ian Hay Beith, (Ian Hay, the author of the First Hundred Thousand)

Richard King, writer for The Tatler
Richard King, who wrote the weekly column, With Silent Friends, in The Tatler magazine. Pictured in the magazine at the time a selection of his writings were being published by Jordan Gaskell with

Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616), English dramatist Wrote commendatory verses for the plays of Ben Jonson

Marjorie Bowen in a Belle Alliance dress
MARJORIE BOWEN alias GABRIELLE MARGARET LONG English novelist (1888 - 1952), pictured in a " Belle Alliance" dress, designed by a group of women-artists who, according to The Sketch

Sir Max Aitken, M. P. in uniform, WW1
William Maxwell " Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879 - 1964), Canadian-British businessman and newspaperman, pictured in uniform in 1916

Cover design, London Magazine, August, one shilling, with a woman in a black swimming costume and a red scarf on her head. Containing stories by Chesterton, Baroness Orczy, Elinor Glyn and others

Olivia Maitland Davidson, writer and journalist, specifically author of Letters of Eve, the Tatler magazines weekly gossip column

Gilbert Frankau, 1916
Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952), writer and war poet. Frankau served in the British Army from the outbreak of war in 1914, first in the 9th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment

Robert Blatchford by Tom Hutt
Caricature of Robert Blatchford (1851-1943), socialist campaigner, journalist and author. Founded the Manchester branch of the Fabian Society and launched the socialist paper, The Clarion

Arthur Quiller Couch (1863-1944)
Photographic portrait of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the English writer, pictured during the First World War when he was active in recruiting for the British Army

Captain Compton Mackenzie, WW1
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

Michael Arlen with Mrs Musker & Mrs Stanley-Clarke
Michael Arlen (1895-1956), writer, known best of all for his sensational 1920s novel, The Green Hat. Born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, in Bulgaria, of Armenian parents. Naturalised British, 1922

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), American author best known for Gone with the Wind, pictured hard at work at her typewriter. Date: 1937

Keble Howard aka John Keble Bell (1875 - 1928), author, novelist and playwright. The third son of the Rev. G. E. Bell, he joined The Sketch magazine as Assistant Editor in 1899

Herbert and Cynthia Asquith during World War One
Herbert Asquith (1881 - 1947), poet, novelist and lawyer, second son of British Prime Minister, Henry Herbert Asquith. Pictured in 1915 during his service with the Royal Artillery

Portrait photograph of Charles Dickens reading to his daughters. English writer and social critic

H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 74), British writer and author, best known for The Darling Buds of May, Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas

Erckmann-Chatrian Photo
EMILE ERCKMANN & LOUIS CHATRIAN French writers who collaborated, combining their names, in a series of popular historical novels : photo 1887. Date: 1822-99, 1826-90

Margueritte Photo
PAUL MARGUERITE and his brother VICTOR (1866 - 1942) French writers who frequently wrote in collaboration : photographed with a bevy of females in 1900. Date: 1860 - 1918

John Sterling
JOHN STERLING scholar and writer, greatly liked, friend of leading writers especially Carlyle who wrote a biography. Date: 1806 - 1844

Fredk. Locker-Lampson
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Writer, noted for his London lyrics. Much-liked, friend to most leading writers of the day. Date: 1821 - 1895

Catherine Hutton, Writer
CATHERINE HUTTON Author of The miser married and other novels : she also left valuable correspondence with many leading writers of her day. She never married. Date: 1756 - 1846

The Womens Press Club of London - founded in 1948. Members in the bar lounge of the club premises in Carey Street, close to Fleet Street, London

AZUERO, Vicente (1787-1844). Colombian lawyer and politician for independence. One of the writers of Gran Colombias Constitution. Litography

Russian writers Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev and Maxim Gorky. Photography

Chekhov, Mamin-Sibiryak & Potapenko
The Russian writers Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (left), Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak (middle) and Ignatius Potapenko

Moments with genius Written by the Illinois Writers Project : presented by the Museum of Science & Industry. Poster for a radio presentation Moments with genius by the Barnum Radio Players on radio

Pierre Loti, French naval Captain and writer
Portrait of Pierre Loti, French naval Captain and writer. Born January 14th 1850. Died June 10th 1923 1912

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