ENGLISH LITERATURE
This gallery shows the cartes-de-visite, cabinet photos, woodburytypes & albumin photos of some important 19th century English novelists, authors, poets, playwrights, journalists, historians & other literary figures. In order to see detailed information, please click on the thumbnail photos. A pop-up window will open with a larger photo and more information.
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens #2
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Alfred Tennyson
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Robert Browning
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Anthony Trollope
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Charles Kingsley
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Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)
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James Anthony Froude
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Tom Taylor
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Wilkie Collins
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Robert Browning #2
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Thomas Hardy
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James Anthony Froude #2
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Henry Arthur Jones
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Robert Browning #3
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Sir Lewis Morris
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Eliza Lynn Linton
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Tom Taylor #2
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Herbert George Wells
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' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s.<br>Photographer: John Watkins, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Black&White<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist. During his lifetime, Dickens was not viewed as the literary monolith we know him as today, but rather as a popular entertainer of fecund imagination and comic genius. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G.K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities, despite continued criticism from his more rarefied readers, like George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. The popularity of his novels and short stories during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none have ever gone out of print. Dickens played a major role in popularising the serialised novel. He is remembered by many as the greatest writer of his time.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,3 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: John Watkins, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,1 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Stereoscopic, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Alfred Tennyson, English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850. Much of his verse was based on classical or mythological themes. One of Tennyson\'s most famous works is Idylls of the King, a series of narrative poems based entirely on King Arthur and the Arthurian tales, as thematically suggested by Sir Thomas Malory\'s earlier tales on the legendary king.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,5 x 10,2 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: J.G. Murdoch, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>English poet, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue. Robert Browning was long unsuccesful as a poet and financially dependent upon his family until he was well into adulthood. In his best works people from the past reveal their thoughts and lives as if speaking or thinking aloud.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,4 x 10,2 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s. <br>Photographer: John M. Murdoch, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope\'s best-loved works, known as the \'Chronicles of Barsetshire\', revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and inter-gender issues and conflicts of his day. Trollope\'s popularity continues into the present day (some famous fans being Sir Alec Guinness, who never travelled without a Trollope novel, ex-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir John Major, and American mystery novelist Sue Grafton); his literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he had regained his foothold amongst critics somewhat by the mid-twentieth century.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,4 x 10 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Ernest Edwards, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,2 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Mayall, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Charles Kingsley was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and North East Hampshire.'))
<br>(1839 - 1908)' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,3 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Unknown<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Ramé was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, to a French father and an English mother. She derived her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname for \'Louise\'. During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, children\'s books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she went to Italy, where she died. Although successful, she did not manage her money well and died in poverty on January 25, 1908, in Viareggio, Italy.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,5 x 10,3 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Stereoscopic, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>James Anthony Froude (Froude rhymes with rood) was an English historian. He was the brother of the Anglo-Catholic polemicist Richard Hurrell Froude and of William Froude, the engineer and naval architect.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 20,1 x 27 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Lock & Whitfield, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>Tom Taylor was a dramatist and editor of Punch magazine. He was born at Bishop Wearmouth, near Sunderland, in north-east England. Taylor began his working life as a journalist. Soon after moving to London, Taylor wrote for the Morning Chronicle and the Daily News. He was on the staff of Punch until 1874, when he succeeded Shirley Brooks as editor. For two years Taylor was a professor of English literature at University College, London. He died at Wandsworth, London, England.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 20,1 x 27 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Lock & Whitfield, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 20,1 x 27 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Lock & Whitfield, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 19,1 x 25,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1890s. <br>Photographer: W. & D. Downey, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Thomas Hardy, an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement — delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, is marked by poetic descriptions and fatalism. He was rewarded the Order of Merit.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 10,7 x 16,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s.<br>Photographer: Sarony, New York<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Cabinet Photo<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 19,1 x 25,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1890s. <br>Photographer: W. & D. Downey, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Henry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 20,1 x 27 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Lock & Whitfield, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 19,1 x 25,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1890s. <br>Photographer: W. & D. Downey, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Sir Lewis Morris was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Lewis Morris was born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, in south-west Wales to Lewis Edward William Morris and Sophia Hughes. He studied classics at Jesus College, Oxford, graduating in 1856: the first student in thirty years to obtain first-class honours in both his preliminary and his final examinations. He then became a lawyer. In 1868 he married Florence Pollard. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895, and narrowly missed being appointed Poet Laureate, possibly because of his association with Oscar Wilde. One of his most famous poems is Love\'s Suicide.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 19,1 x 25,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1890s. <br>Photographer: W. & D. Downey, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Eliza Lynn Linton, was a British novelist, essayist, and journalist. The daughter of a clergyman and granddaughter of a bishop of Carlisle, she arrived in London in 1845 as the protegé of poet Walter Savage Landor. In the following year she produced her first novel, Azeth, the Egyptian; Amymone (1848), and Realities (1851), followed. None of these had any great success, and she became a journalist, joining the staff of the Morning Chronicle, and All the Year Round.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,3 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Elliot & Fry, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 9,3 x 13,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1900s. <br>Photographer: Unknown<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Albumen<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>Herbert George Wells better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best remembered today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Sleeper Awakes, and The First Men in the Moon. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as The Father of Science Fiction. He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist; his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic. His middle period novels (1900-1920) were more realistic; they covered lower middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the New Woman and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica). He was a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.'))
