Herman Melville
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Oliver Goldsmith
Sir Richard Steele
William Hazlitt
Washington Irving 1783 - 1859
Samuel Johnson
Joseph Addison
Edward Everett
Charles Lamb, (Penname Elia)
John Wilson ("Christopher North")
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
George Colman The Elder
Francis Bret Harte
O Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter
Rudyard Kipling
Sir William Temple 1st Baronet
James Boswell
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Thomas Carlyle
Sir Thomas Browne
Matthew Arnold
Bonnell Thornton
Charles Lamb
Jonathan Swift
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Vicesimus Knox
Jean De La Bruyere
W. W. Jacobs (William Wymark Jacobs)
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828 1910
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
Charles Lamb aged 23, Penname Elia
Charles Lamb in his thirtieth year,in the dress of a Venetian Senator. Penname Elia
James Henry Leigh Hunt aged 44
Francis Bacon
Sir William Temple
Washington Irving
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
SIR RICHARD STEELE
Seneca the Elder, Roman orator
Eric Arthur Blair who used the pen name George Orwell.
Dean Swift, also Jonathon Swift, pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff
Miss Benger
Fisher Ames
Walt Whitman
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 1854 1900
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, 1800 1859
Miguel de Unamuno.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
WW Jacobs. Wiliam Wymark Jacobs
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, nee Stevenson, 1810 1865, aka Mrs Gaskell
Edith Wharton
Frank Stockton
George W. Cable
Joel Chandler Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Johnathon Swift pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fenelon Francois de Salignac de la Mothe
Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes
Douglas William Jerrold
Jerome K.Jerome
William Makepeace Thackeray
Henrik Ibsen
John Bunyan
John Foxe
Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny
Charlotte Bronte
Edward George Lytton-Bulwer
George Borrow
George Sand, pen name of Amadine Aurore Lucie Dupin
Jane Austen
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Alain-Rene Le Sage
Alexandre Dumas, The Younger
Alfred Capus
Alfred Louis Charles De Musset
Alphonse Daudet
Edmond About
Edmondo de Amicis
emile Edouards Charles Antoine Zola
Paul Scarron
Charles John Huffam Dickens
Ana Jameson
Charles James Lever
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
John Galt
Laurence Sterne
Maria Edgeworth
Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley
Antonio De Trueba
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman
Ludwig Johann Tieck
Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes,
Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
Paul Von Heyse
Wilhelm Hauff
Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Francois Rochefoucauld
Jean de la Bruyuere
Madame de Sevigne (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal).
Peter Corneille
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Carlo Goldoni
Honore de Balzac
Tobias George Smollet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johnathon Swift, pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Alexandre Dumas The Younger
William Shakespeare
Dean Swift, also Jonathon Swift
Thomas Wright
Albert Smith
Portrait of Miguel Saavedra de Cervantes
Allan Cunningham
Jane Porter
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Maria Jane Jewsbury Mrs Fletcher
Frances Trollope
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Margaret Cavendish nee Lucas Duchess of Newcastle
John Boyle 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery
Robert Ker
Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
Miss Evans, at 30
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 1882
MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719).
WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835).
JAMES HUNT (1784-1859).
LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859).
Herman Cyril McNeile
Lucien-Anatole Prevost-Paradol, 1829 - 1870
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950).
GEORGES BERNANOS
ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963).
Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Virginia Woolf (born Stephen - 1882-1941)
James Hogg.
Ralph Waldo EMERSON - 1803-1882 American poet and essayist. Emerson lecturing in England.
Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan y de la Pena.
Plutarch.
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Romain Rolland.
Facsimile of a letter from Charlotte Bront.
Thomas Carlyle.
Ben Jonson
Charles Baudelaire.