Writers Collection (page 6)

Amy Vanderbilt
Chicago, Illinois: c. 1954 Etiquette authority Amy Vanderbilt

Author Sinclair Lewis
United States: c. 1930 A portrait of writer, novelist, playwright and 1930 Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis

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

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

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