Wrote Collection (page 4)

Christoph Wegleiter
CHRISTOPH WEGLEITER German churchman and theologian who also wrote songs at Altdorf Date: 1659 - 1706

James Wathen
JAMES WATHEN traveler who wrote under the nom-de-plume Jemmy Sketch. Date: 1751 - 1828

Emery Upton
General EMORY UPTON American military commander in the Union army; an authority on military tactics, about which he wrote a book. Date: 1839 - 1881

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

Isabella Sforza
ISABELLA (D Aragona) SFORZA daughter of Alfonso, king of Naples, wife of Giovanni Galeazzo Sforza : she wrote a treatise on the tranquillity of the soul. Date: 1470 - ?

William Spottiswoode
WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE mathematician, expelled from Eton for setting off fireworks, rowed in the boat race, wrote travel book about Russia. Date: 1825 - 1883

Comtesse De Grignan
FRANCOISE MARGUERITE de SEVIGNE, comtesse de GRIGNAN daughter of Marie de Sevigne, who wrote her many marvellous letters. Date: 1646 - 1705

Paul Schede Melissus
PAUL SCHEDE German poet who wrote in Latin using the nom-de-plume Melissus. Date: 1539 - 1602

Henry Russell
HENRY RUSSELL - song-writer who studied with Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, wrote The old armchair and Woodman, spare that tree ! Date: 1812 - 1900

Derrick Baron Rossmore
DERRICK WARNER WILLIAM WESTENRA, fifth baron ROSSMORE soldier and sportsman, master of the Pytchley hunt, wrote his memoirs. Date: 1853 - 1921

Nikolay Nekrasov
NIKOLAY ALEKSEYEVICH NEKRASOV (or Nekrassov) Russian poet, noted for poems on life and sufferings of peasants, wrote Who can be happy and free in Russia ? Date: 1821 - 1877

Onorio Marinari
ONORIO MARINARI Italian painter and engraver from Firenze, mostly doing portraits of saints, but he also wrote and illustrated a mathematical treatise. Date: 1627 - 1715

Thomas Henry Lister
THOMAS HENRY LISTER English novelist and dramatist, best remembered for his social-political novel Granby : he also wrote successfully for the stage. Date: 1800 - 1842

Edmund Hickeringill
EDMUND HICKERINGILL - Engliah churchman, soldier in Scotland, Swedish ambassador to England, traveller in West Indies, wrote scurrilous attacks on the Church, etc. Date: 1631 - 1708

Andrew Halliday - 2
ANDREW DUFF HALLIDAY Writer, essayist and dramatist, worked with Dickens, wrote many farces and a stage adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. Date: 1830 - 1877

Andrew Halliday - 1
ANDREW HALLIDAY Writer, essayist and dramatist, worked with Dickens, wrote many farces and a stage adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. Date: 1830 - 1877

Peter Adolph Grotjan
PETER ADOLPH GROTJAN German - American merchant, who wrote an account of his 1805 mercantile travels. Date: 1774 - 1850

Francoise De Grignan - 8
FRANCOISE MARGUERITE, comtesse de GRIGNAN, marquise de SIMIANE, daughter of mme de Sevigne who surely wrote the letter her daughter is holding - they corresponded famously. Date: 1646 - 1705

STOWE, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896)
" STOWE, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896). North American writter. US writer. She wrote " Uncle Toms Cabin", a work written in. Engraving."

MARAGALL i GORINA, Joan (1860-1911). Spanish

Henry Morley, Photo
HENRY MORLEY Professor of literature, author and translator, wrote massive history of English literature and edited classics. Date: 1822 - 1894

Scipione Capece
SCIPIONE CAPECE Neapolitan poet who wrote in Latin. Date: ? - 1562

Andre Campra, Musician
ANDRE CAMPRA, French composer, seated on the right; with him are A Dauchet, standing, who wrote most of his libretti, and Bon Boullogne who painted this picture. Date: 1660 - 1744

Lady Charlotte Bury - 3
Lady CHARLOTTE SUSAN MARIA BURY, daughter of the 6th duke of Argyll, wife (1) of Colonel John Campbell, (2) rev Edward Bury. Not just a pretty face, she wrote poetry and stuff. Date: 1756 - 1861

Ibsen / Gremobad Pharmacy
HENRIK IBSEN Pharmacy at Gremobad where the Norwegian dramatist wrote his first play Date: 1828 - 1906

William Robert Brooks
WILLIAM ROBERT BROOKS English-born astronomer in USA who built his own telescope at age 14. His speciality was comets, of which he discovered several. Also wrote poetry. Date: 1844 - 1921

Thomas Brightman
THOMAS BRIGHTMAN Puritan churchman and writer, who believed he wrote under divine inspiration. Aged 45. though he looks older. Date: 1562 - 1607

Rutland Boughton
RUTLAND BOUGHTON English musician, best known for his very successful The immortal hour but he wrote symphonies and chamber music too. Date: 1878 - 1960

Picture No. 10508182
Anne Anderson - I wrote a letter to my love

Goldsmith / Hyde Lane
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Irish writers farmhouse in Hyde Lane, off Edgware Road, where he wrote Date: 1730 - 1774

George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist. Although a Spanish citizen, he wrote in English, and was brought up and educated in the United States

Hector Hugh Munro, or Saki, 1870- 1916). Sakis stories satirized the Edwardian social scene. He wrote a number of stort stories including The Open Window

Prince John of Wales (1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured here wearing a dress. Until after the First World War it was normal to dress small boys

Howard Staunton (1810-1874), English Shakespearean scholar, actor and chess player. World chess champion from 1843-1851, he also wrote, The Chess-Players Handbook, published in 1847

Captain Frederick Burnaby on the Road to Khiva, 1875
Engraving showing Captain Frederick Burnaby (1842-1885), the English soldier and explorer, travelling, with a companion, across the Russian Steppes in the winter of 1875

Henry Hamilton Fyfe (1869-1951) English war reporter who wrote for amongst other publications, War Illustrated

William Drummond
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Scottish poet who also wrote many political pamphlets

Abraham Cowley - 1
ABRAHAM COWLEY Poet, who wrote that Life is an incurable disease

John Dennis, Critic
JOHN DENNIS playwright and critic - more successful at the latter than the former; made enemies of Swift and Pope, but wrote well on Shakespeare

Swanson House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. One of the many residences of Charles Dickens and where he wrote " Barnaby Rudge"

Samuel Wesley
SAMUEL WESLEY (son of Charles, nephew of John) musician : child prodigy who wrote part of an oratorio at age 8, published at age 11, said to be finest organist of his day

Coleridge Stowey Cottage
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critics cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset, England. Living from 1797 to 1800, he wrote The Ancient Mariner here

Thucydides (Capitol)
THUCYDIDES Greek historian, wrote his history while exiled for perceived military failure

Christopher Robin Milne
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN MILNE, bear- loving son of A A Milne who wrote a succession of books about him, delighting millions but nauseating others

Here we dance Lubin, Lubin, words and music
Here we dance Lubin, Lubin I wrote a letter to my Love, And on the way I dropped it, But one of you has picked it up, And put it in your pocket!

Anacreon / Statue / Rome
ANACREON Greek poet, who wrote particularly in praise of love and wine

Beatus Rhenanus / Larmessi
BEATUS RHENANUS also known as BILD AUS RHEINAU German humanist who wrote the first history of the Germanic peoples and superintended the printing of Erasmuss works

Maurice Baring - Writer
MAURICE BARING British journalist and author. Wrote novels Cats Cradle and Daphne Adeane

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