Novelist Collection (page 13)

Charles Dickens, English novelist, 19th century. Artist: DJ Pound
Charles Dickens, English novelist, 19th century. Considered one of the English languages greatest writers, Dickens (1812-1870) was the foremost novelist of the Victorian era

George Sand, French novelist and early feminist, c1845. Artist: Auguste Charpentier
George Sand, French novelist and early feminist, c1845. Portrait of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin whose pen-name was George Sand (1804-1876). Found in the collection of the Musee George Sand, France

Chekhov and Tolstoy, late 19th century. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian writer, left, with Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian writer, philosopher and mystic

Signature of Jules-Amedee Barbey d Aurevilly, 19th century. Artist: Jules-Amedee Barbey d Aurevilly
Signature of Jules-Amedee Barbey d Aurevilly, French writer and critic, 19th century. Barbey d Aurevillys (1808-1889) novels and stories, set in his native Cotentin

Jules Verne (1828-1905), De la Terre a la Lune, 1865, Paris. Blast Off !

Jules Verne (1828-1905), Autour de la Lune, 1865. Space capsule manoeuvering ready for Moon landing

Charles Dickens, English author, c1850-1870. Dickens (1812-1870) began his career as a journalist before becoming one of the greatest English novelists

Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian author, 1930s. A novelist and playwright, Bulgakov (1891-1940) is best remembered for his critically acclaimed satirical novel The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author, Veshenskaya, USSR, 1960s. Sholokhov (1905-1984) is best known for his novel And Quiet Flows the Don, published in 1940

Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and novelist, Peredelkino, USSR, 1952. Pasternak (1890-1960) is best known outside of Russia as the author of the epic novel Doctor Zhivago, published in 1957

Andrei Bely, Russian novelist and poet, 1904. Andrei Bely was the pen name adopted by Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880-1934), who was a member of the Symbolist movement in Russian literature

Ivan Turgenev, Russian author, late 19th century. Artist: Charles Bergamasco
Ivan Turgenev, Russian author, late 19th century. A playwright and novelist, Turgenev (1818-1885) is best remembered for his novel Fathers and Sons, published in 1862

Brookbank, Shotter Mill, Surrey, the home of British novelist, George Eliot, 1882. Eliots success as a novelist enabled her to purchase Brookbank. From The Century Magazine. (New York, 1882)

Walter Besant, c1901. Besant (1836-1901) British novelist, editor, philanthropist and social reformer was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire

Michael Arlen (1895-1956), British writer and novelist of Armenian extraction, 1937. Arlen, whose real name was Dikran Kuyumjian, was born in Bulgaria to Armenian parents

Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, poet and cleric. Swift (1667-1746) was the author of Gullivers Travels, Battle of the Books and A Tale of the Tub

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-born British playwright. Dramatist, poet and novelist Goldsmith (1724-1774) is best remembered for the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

Oliver Goldsmith, 18th-century playwright, (c1860s). Goldsmith (1730?-1774) in his room surrounded by books. Dramatist, poet

Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist, seated on a stone, accompanied by a dog, 1808. Artist: John Horsburgh
Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist, 1808. Scott (1771-1832) seated on a stone, with a dog beside him, in the year his poem Marmion was published

Alexandre Dumas the Younger, French writer, c1865-1895
Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895) French writer. His novel La dame aux camelias (The Lady of the Camellias) was the basic story for Giuseppe Verdis (1813-1901) opera La Traviata (1853)

Alexandre Dumas the Elder, French novelist and playwright, c1840-1860. Dumas (1802-1870) was the author of popular historical adventure classics including The Man in the Iron Mask

Jules Verne, French adventure and science fiction author, late 19th century. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was one of the pioneers of science fiction

Charles Dickens, English novelist and journalist, 1849-1850. Dickens (1812-1870) at the time when his David Coppefield was published

Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, philosopher and mystic, telling his grandchildren a story, c1890-1910. From the British Museum

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, 1881. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, 1881. Cartoon of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the Fancy Portraits series from Punch. (London, 25 June 1881)

PG Wodehouse, English novelist and writer, 1937. Born in Guilford, Surrey, Pelham Grenville (PG) Wodehouse (1881-1975) was the creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and Lord Emsworth

Charlotte Bronte, English novelist, mid-19th century. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was the author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette

E (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, English novelist, 1937. Oppenheim (1866-1946), specialised in stories of espionage and international intrigue. Cigarette card from the Famous British Authors series

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

Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist and journalist, July 1858
Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist and journalist. Dickens giving a public reading from his Dombey and Son, July 1858

Charles Dickens addressing a meeting, London, 1856. British author Charles Dickens speaking at The Dulwich College Charity Meeting at the Adelphi Theatre

Charles Dickens giving an after-dinner speech, c1860s. Dickens (1812-1870) began his career as a journalist before becoming one of the greatest English novelists

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), English novelist, poet and critic, 1877. She chose a male nom de plume in order to improve her chances of publication

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), English novelist, poet and critic, 1927. GK Chesterton was the creator of the fictional detective Father Brown (1911)

Charles Dickens (1812-70) English author, (c1860s?). Photograph of Dickens seated with dog at his side, taken towards end of his life

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist, essayist and critic. Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) was a leading figure in London literary circles and was a member of the Bloomsbury group

HG Wells (1865-1946), English novelist, writer and popular historian, c1925. Hubert George Wells is best known for his works of science fiction, including The Time Machine

DH (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist and poet, (c1910s?). Lawrence is regarded as one of the greatest figures of 20th century English literature

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), English essayist and novelist, 1927. Huxley is best remembered for Brave New World, his work of science fiction describing life in a technologically advanced

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author, 1857
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author. Although also a poet and novelist, Andersen is particularly remembered for his famous fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), English historical novelist. Ainsworths works include Old St Paul s, The Tower of London and Windsor Castle

William Somerset Maugham, British author of novels, plays and short stories, 1927. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) qualified as a physician at St Thomass Hospital, London, in 1897

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), German Romantic poet and novelist, c1800
Novalis (pseudonymn of Friedrich von Hardenberg 1772-1801) German Romantic poet and novelist. Prophet of Romanticism. Engraving

George Eliot as a young woman, c1840
George Eliot pen name of Mary Ann Evans as a young woman. English novelist of great stature. Author of Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda

Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist, 1867. Artist: Andre Gill
Victor Hugo, French poet, dramatist and novelist, 1867. Born in Besancon, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a central figure in the French Romantic movement

George Sand, French Romantic novelist, mid 19th century. Married at 18, after nine years Sand (1804-1876) left her husband Baron Dudevant and went to Paris with their two children

JB Priestley, British novelist, playwright, essayist and broadcaster, c1927. Joseph Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was born in Bradford in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge

Arthur Quiller-Couch, English poet, novelist, anthologist and critic, c1927. Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was born at Fowey, Cornwall

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