Literature Collection (page 100)

Mrs Poyser, wife of Hetty Sorrels farmer uncle, Martin Poyser, with Squire Donnithorne, whose son Arthur seduced Hetty. Mrs Poyser is possibly George Eliots most successful comic character

Shakespeare Richard III, Act I. Sc. II. Richard II ( King of England 1483-1485), Duke of Gloucester at this time, woos Anne, daughter of Earl of Warwick and widow of Edward, Prince of Wales

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, early 19th century. Lamb used the pseudonym Elia. With his sister Mary wrote Tales from Shakespeare (1807) for children. Britsh. Engraving

Headpiece from Thomas Moores work depicting an ideal state where reason ruled, Utopia 1518 (Ist edition 1516) showing More in discussion with Raphael Hythlodaeus (Hythloday)

Charles Dickens (1812-70) giving his last public reading at St Jamess Hall, London 5 March 1870. He read extracts from A Christmas Carol and the trial scene from Pickwick Papers

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist. From a cartoon by Andre Gill La Lune, Paris 19 May 1867, alluding to Hugos exile in Guernsey

Robinson Crusoe makes contact with fright18ned Man Friday. From Daniel Defoe The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London 1892, illustrated by John Dawson Watson (1832-1892)

Shakespeare Othello Act 1: Brabantio agrees to his daughter Desdemonas marriage to Othello. 19th century engraving

P(Pelham) G(Grenville) Wodehouse (1881-1975) English novelist and writer. Creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeaves and Lord Emsworth. From a cigarette card published 1937

Shakespeare, Richard III Act IV Sc. IV. Elizabeth Woodville and the Duchess of York, Widow and mother of Edward IV, intercept and remonstrate with Richard III. Illustration by Sir John Gilbert

Oscar WiIde (1854-1900) Irish writer, wit and playwright. Photograph published c1890

Robinson Crusoe about twenty years after shipwreck, in his cave with family of pet parrot, cats and kids. From Daniel Defoe The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London 1892

Recovery of the British Fuseliers at Albuera, 16 May 1811. Beresford defeated Soult. Engraving

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist and journalist giving an after dinner speech. Engraving

Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) English orientalist and explorer. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne for Punch, London, 13 May 1882, showing Burton in the eastern dress he adopted on his travels

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) English novelist. After portrait by George Richmond. Author of Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Vilette (1852)

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English dramatist, at home, 1903. After a series of comedies, in 1893 with The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Pinero began a series of realistic tragedies. From The Tatler

Amos Barton at his wifes deathbed. Illustration by Robert Barnes for George Eliot Scenes of Clerical Life, London, 1883 (first published 1857)

Silas Marner George Eliot, 1861. Silas Marner defeated in his attempt to discipline Eppie (aged 3) by shutting her in the coal hole. After this episode, she is brought up without punishment

John Skelton (1460ja-1529) English satirical poet. Tutor to Prince Henry (later Henry VIII). From an edition of Colyn Cloute his long poem against Cardinal Wolsey. Woodcut

Mr Tulliver ordering Tom to write a bitter condemnation of lawyer Wakem in the front of the family Bible. Illustration by Walter James Allen (active 1859-1891)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) in about 1780, English lexicographer and man of letters. After an engraving by Finden

Philip Sidney (1554-1586) English soldier, statesman, poet, and patron of poets. Governor of Flushing (1585). Mortally wounded in the thigh at the Battle of Zutphen in which the Dutch

Nicholas Nickelby Charles Dickens 1838-1839. Theatrical emotion of Mr Vincent Crummles, provincial actor manager who employs Nicholas for a while

Joe Gargery, the gentle giant, provoked to violence in his smithy. In the background his brother-in-law Philip Pirrip (Pip), the hero of the novel, works the bellows

Charon the ferryman rowing to collect Dante and his guide, Virgil, to carry them across the Styx. Illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante Inferno, Canto III. Wood engraving 1861

Deborah, Hebrew prophetess who delivered her people from Jabin, King of Canaan, and his general Sisera, singing her song of triumph. Judges 5:1. 13th century BC

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English author. Photograph of Dickens seated with dog at side. Taken towards end of his life

Ruth embracing her mother-in-law Naomi and promising to stay with her now they are bereaved. Ruth 1.14. From Gustave Dores illustrated Bible 1866. Wood engraving

Trojan War: King Priam of Troy mourning over the body of his son Hector. Legendary war between Greeks and Trojans 12th or 13th century BC.16th century manuscript. British Museum

Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-upon-Avon, 6-8 September 1769 organised by the great English actor David Garrick (1717-1779)

Herbert George Wells (1865-1946) British novelist, writer and popular historian. HG Wells in his study at Spade House, Sandgate, Kent, c1902

Susanna rejecting advances of the Elders. Accused by them of fornication and condemned to death. Saved by Daniel who proved their stories false. Bible Susanna 5:22. Copperplate engraving c1804

Adam and Eve, tempted by the Serpent, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are expelled from the Garden of Eden by the Angel of the Lord

Odysseus (Ulysses) King of Ithaca: His adventures told in Homers Odyssey. Warned by sorceress Circe of irresistible song of Sirens

Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776-1847) French social and religious philosopher whose ideas influenced the Romantic writers. Wood engraving

Joanna Baille (1762-1851) Scottish poet and dramatist. Engraving 1870

Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, finds himself in kingdom of the Houyhnhns. He discusses mankind with his master

William Blake (1757-1827) in 1824 English mystic, poet, painter and engraver

Samuel Jackson Johnson (1709-1784) English lexicographer, writer and critic. Title page of Johnsons Dictionary of the Human Language London 1755

Fernand Ansseau (1890-1972) Belgian operatic tenor, active 1913-1939. Ansseau as Romeo in Gounods opera Romeo et Juliette based on Shakespeares tragedy

Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio Hamlet in the graveyard with Horatio and the clown, examines Yoricks skull. William Shakespeares Hamlet: Act V Sc I. Engraving published London c1850

Farmer sowing seed broadcast. Horses in right backgro Colour-printed wood engraving

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist remembered for her six great novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Engraving

Jean Antoine de Baif (1532-1589) French poet: member of the Pleiade, seven French poets devoted to reforming French language and ennobling French literature. Engraving

Artemus Ward, pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867), c1880. American humourist and writer. Engraving

Fanny (Frances) Burney, Madame D Arblay (1752-1840) English novelist, 1843. Daughter of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney, in 1793 she married General d Arblay, a French refugee

In the space capsule: calculations making the narrators head spin. From Jules Verne Autour de la Lune, Paris, 1865. Wood engraving

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