Simon Grynaeus was a German scholar and theologian of the Protestant Reformation.
7.5 x 4.5 cm
Price £12.00
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Anatole France 1844-1924
Anatole France, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.
From a photo by E.O.Hope
Published by the Bookman 1914
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855
Charlotte Nicholls, commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë, was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Photomechanical print by George Richmond. 1809-1896
Size 21 x 15 cms
Price £30.00
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George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
Photogravure by Lizzie Caswall Smith, published by George G. Harrap & Company,
Printed by The Edinburgh Press 1913
Size 20 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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George Chapman 1559-1634
English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century
Size 17 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
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Sarah Sandford (née Chapone) 1731-active 1788
Daughter of author Sarah Chapone; wife of Daniel Sandford
Artist/Engraver by Joseph Brown, published by Richard Bentley, after Mary Delany (née Granville)
stipple engraving, published 1862
Size 22 x 14cms
Price £14.00
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Ida Laura Pfeiffer 1797-1858
Ida Laura Pfeiffer, née Reyer, a famous early female Austrian professional traveler who became an explorer, ethnographer, and travel writer; her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages .
Artist/Engraver August Weger 1823-1892 Leipzig
Size28 x 21cms
Price £16.00
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 -1838
English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in the United States, where she was very popular.
Published 1820s by James Frazer
Size 28 x 23 cms
Price £14.00
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William Barker Daniel 1754–1833
Church of England clergyman and writer on field sports, was born in Colchester, the son of William Daniel. Little is known about his early life except that he was educated at Felsted and that his father was an attorney. In 1771 he went to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained a BA in 1787 and an MA three years later. He was ordained deacon at Lincoln in December 1785 and priest at Gloucester on 12 March 1786, although he was never beneficed. In 1788 he was appointed private chaplain to the prince regent, a position he is believed to have retained until his retirement.
After Engleheart
Size 26 x 18 cms
Price £12.00
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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed 1751-1830
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed was an English Orientalist and philologist. Halhad was born at Westminster, and was educated at Harrow School, where he began a close friendship with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. was member of parliament for Lymington, Hants.
Engraved by White, published by Benjamin Crosby, after Isaac Cruikshank 1795
Size 8 x 7 cms
Price £12.00
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