'Cranford'
'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell. Narrated by the charater Mary Smith. Caption reads: 'Don't 'but Martha' me'. (Martha and Mary Smith). EG: English novelist and and short story writer, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865. Illustration by Hugh Thomson.
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'Cranford'
'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell. Narrated by the charater Mary Smith. Caption reads: 'We sedulously talked together'. (The ladies of Cranford). EG: English novelist and and short story writer, 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865. Illustration by Hugh Thomson.
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'Peter Pan and Wendy'
'Peter Pan and Wendy' by James Matthew Barrie. Peter Pan and Wendy by the side of the Treehouse. Title page. JMB: Scottish novelist and dramatist, 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937.
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'Peter Pan and Wendy'
'Peter Pan and Wendy' by James Matthew Barrie. Wendy sewing on Peter Pan's shadow. Title page. JMB: Scottish novelist and dramatist, 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937.
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'The Old Wives' Tale'
by Arnold Bennett. 1931. Caption reads: The architecture of the Five Towns is an architecture of ovens and chimneys'. AB: English novelist, 27 May 1867 - 27 March 1931. Illustratrion by John Morton Sale.
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Charles Dickens '
Charles Dickens ' novel, 'The Chimes' (1844). First Quarter. Portrait of Trotty Veck. . English novelist. 'There's nothing', said Toby, 'more regular in its coming round than dinner-time, and nothing less regular in its coming round than dinner. That's the great difference between 'em.' 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Trotty. Toby Veck. Toby 'Trotty' Veck.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Illustration for the English poet's poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1797), by Patten Wilson. 21 October 1772-25 July 1834.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's poem 'The Song of Hiawatha'. Portrait related to Hiawatha lines. 'Clad in all their richest raiment, robes of fur and belts of wampum.' Native American. American Indians. Red Indian. Indigenous Peoples of America. American poet, 27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882.
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Giovanni Boccaccio' s tale
Giovanni Boccaccio' s tale of Griselda from the collection the Decameron. Woodcut from a Florentine edition of the Decameron, dated before 1500. The husband takes the newborn girl to test Griselda's constancy. Italian poet. 16 June 1335 - 21 December 1375
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Stephane Mallarm illustration
Stephane Mallarm illustration for the French Symbolist poet 's 'L'aprmidi d'un faune', 1876 ( The Afternoon of a Faun) by the French artist Edouard Manet. 19th Century drawing. 18 March 1842 - 9 September 1898. The poem formed the basis of Claude Debussy 's 'Prde 'aprmidi d'un faune' and Vaslav Nijinsky 's ballet L'aprmidi d'un faune.
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The History of Don
The History of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote and the bachiller. Spanish author, 1547-1616. Picaresque adventure. Don Quijote.
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Charles Dickens 's 'The
Charles Dickens 's 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' : Wackford Squeers and the new pupil. English novelist 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Illustration by Harold Copping, 1924.
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Charles Dickens 's 'The
Charles Dickens 's 'The Pickwick Papers' : the fat boy awake. Illustration by Harold Copping, 1924. English novelist: 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870.
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Children playing with animals
Children playing with animals, 1923
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Gaskell Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn
Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn (nStevenson) - scene from Cranford: Our Society. 1810-1865. Artist: Hugh Thomson.
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Oliver Goldsmith 's 'The
Oliver Goldsmith 's 'The Vicar of Wakefield' : Mr Burchell rescuing Sophia Primrose. Irish poet and playwright 1730-1774. Artist: Thomas Hearne
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Charles Dickens 's
Charles Dickens 's 'The Pickwick Papers' : portrait of Alfred Jingle. Novel completed in 1837. Illustration by Frederick Barnard (English illustrator 1846-1896) English novelist: 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870.
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Colour cover for adventure
Colour cover for adventure book, 'Sunk Without Trace', early 1930s. A boat in a stormy sea with a sailor unconscious on deck. Boys own adventure story
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The Light of the
The Light of the Haram - illustration from the book Lalla Rookh by Irish poet and writer Thomas Moore. The Enchantress casts a spell with flowers. Caption reads, 'Fill'd with the cool, inspiring smell, the Enchantress now begins her spell.' 28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852. (First published 1817.) 1861 edition with illustrations by John Tenniel.
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The Veiled Prophet of
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan' - illustration from the book Lalla Rookh by Irish poet and writer Thomas Moore. The heroine (Lalla Rookh) surrounded by dancing handmaidens with tambourines, anklets with bells, and flowers. Caption reads, 'He sees a group of female forms advance.' 28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852. (First published 1817.) 1861 edition with illustrations by John Tenniel.
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