Novelist Collection (page 14)

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

Justice to Dreyfus, 1898. Artist: Jean Baptiste Guth
Justice to Dreyfus, 1898. Cartoon of the French novelist Emile Zola (1840-1902) while he was taking refuge in England after being sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the campaign to obtain

Trial of Emile Zola, French author, 1898. Zola (1840-1902) embracing his counsel, Maitre Labori at the end of the 14th day of his trial for defamation of the French military authorities for writing a

Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer, c1900. Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the creator of Sherlock Holmes and of Brigadier Gerard

William Thomas Stead, English author and journalist, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
William Thomas Stead, English author and journalist, c1890. Stead (1849-1912) was editor of the Northern Echo (1871-1880) and the Pall Mall Gazette (1883-1890)

AEW Mason, English novelist, 1902. A(lfred) E(dward) W(oodley) Mason (1865-1948) at his desk at the time The Four Feathers, his best known novel, appeared

Tobias George Smollett, 18th century Scottish-born British novelist, 1803. Smolletts (1721-1771) best known work is The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)

Germaine de Stael, French writer, novelist and political propagandist born in Paris, 1843. Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) was the only child of Jacques Necker, French statesman and financier

Mary Augusta Ward, English novelist and social worker, c1890. Mary Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) (1851-1920) was the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold of Rugby and niece of Matthew Arnold

Herman Melville, American author, 19th century. Melville (1819-1891) travelled extensively around the world by sea as a young man, experiences that he drew on in writing his novels

Henry James, American novelist, late 19th-early 20th century. Although born in the USA, Henry James (1843-1916) travelled extensively to Europe and lived primarily in England from 1876 onwards

Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 19th century. Flaubert (1821-1880) is best known for his first novel, Madame Bovary, published in 1857

Franz Kafka, Czech novelist, early 20th century. Born into a middle class Prague Jewish family, Kafka (1883-1924) is regarded as one of the most important German language novelists

Signature of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist. Artist: JM Barrie
Signature of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist. Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street are among his best known works

James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist, c1895. Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street are among his best known works

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist and literary critic. Balzac qualified as a lawyer, but abandoned the legal profession for literature

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish-born British novelist.Woodblock

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

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