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Karen Abbott

Photo by Gilbert King
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Louisa May Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Maud Allan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress LC-DIG-ggbain-21185).
Sarah Addison Allen

L.Allen
Kingsley Amis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michael Arlen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Gertrude Atherton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kate Atkinson

Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer 
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Joanna Baillie

Project Gutenberg
S. Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Stephanie Barron

Brunonia Barry

Martha Everson
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Cari Beauchamp

Mark Vieria
Gustavo A. Becquer

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett, American actress (22 March 1939) / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Peter Bogdonavich

Wikipedia user Eliaws
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate

Marjorie Bowen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Sarah Bradford

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Patricia Brady

Julia Briggs


Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Louise Brooks

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rhoda Broughton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alice Brown

Jon Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Thomas Burke

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert W. Chambers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rita Charbonnier

Author Rita Charbonnier. Photo by Tony Zecchinelli.
Mavis Cheek

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Harriet Scott Chessman

Micah Wolf
G.K. Chesterton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Mary Cholmondeley

John Collier


Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Miriam Cooper

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marie Corelli

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) Photo by F. Holland Day, circa 1890 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-121769)
David Crane

Catherine Eldridge
F. Marion Crawford

Credit: Zaida Ben-Yusuf, circa 1900
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83072)
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren

Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1825-1898) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Sandra Dallas

Photo by Povy Kendal Atchison
Clemence Dane

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35540
Owen Davis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Harding Davis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

E.M. Delafield

Catherine Delors

Cleo de Merode

August Derleth, ed.

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
P.C. Doherty

Ronlyn Domingue

Ronlyn Domingue (left) with River Jordan
at 2007 Pulpwood Girlfriends weekend, Marshall, Texas
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganSir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Joan Druett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alexandre Dumas Fils

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Emily Eden

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Maria Edgeworth

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Amelia B. Edwards

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erica Eisdorfer

photo by Lance Richardson
George Eliot

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erckmann-Chatrian

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Karen Essex

photo by Lisa Rutledge
John Meade Faulkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Sheridan Le Fanu

Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Christopher Fowler

John Fowles

Julia Fox

Susan Greenhill
Katherine Frank

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill

Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Celia Fremlin

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Richard LeGallienne

Photo copyrighted 1903
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-104657)

Mrs. Gaskell

William John Thomson
Theophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Adele Geras

Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Philip Gibbs

Robert Girardi

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Eve Golden

Mel Neuhaus
Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Lauren Groff

Lucy Schaeffer
Sandra Gulland

Richard Gulland
Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
John Guy

Author's website
Dashiel Hammett, ed.

Azarnick
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Karen Harper

Jeffrey A. Rycus
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
William Harvey

Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library,
University of Kansas Medical Center
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Julian Hawthorne

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06607)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Eliza Haywood

Julie Hearn

James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Christopher Hibbert

Robert Hichens

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Elizabeth Hickey

Photograph by Jonathan Selwood
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Foster Hirsch

Vera Jaffe
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
William Dean Howells, ed.

from Wikipedia
Glyn Hughes

Halifax Courier
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Orne Jewett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Boris Karloff, ed.

M.J. Farrell

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Fanny Kelly

Fanny Kelly. Frontispiece from Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians (1871)
Margaret Kennedy

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Princess Michael of Kent

Photo by Terry O'Neill
Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Jon Kukla

Jennifer Kukla
Selma Lagerlof

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gavin Lambert

Brad Leithauser, ed.

Michael Malyszyko
Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
David Lindsay

E. Lynn Linton

Mrs. Lynn Linton
Villiers de Lisle-Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
Anita Loos

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Lorrain

Jean Lorrain. Frontispiece from Théâtrè by Jean Lorrain (1906).
Bessie Love

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alberto Manguel, ed.

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Walter de la Mare

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frances Marion

1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99387)
Richard Marsh

Charles Kiernan
Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Russell Martin

John Matteson

W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne du Maurier

Richard Dyer McCann

Photo by Joanne Jacobson
Colleen McCullough

Cheryl Mendelson


Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore (Film Actress) ~ George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Lucy Moore

William de Morgan

Ethel Glazebrook
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Fiona Mountain

© Hugh Dickens
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Robert Nathan

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Natsume Soseki

Pola Negri

1918 German film poster for Ernst Lubitsch's Carmen starring Pola Negri
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
John Nicholson

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Edna O' Brien

William D. O'Connor

Photo by Ritz & Hastings, Boston, c1870-89 (Library of Congress)
Olga Petrova

1917 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-120172)
Mrs. Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Oliver Onions

Photo from The War Illustrated, 31 July 1915,
via WikipediaBarry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)
Dorothy Parker

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (b.1862), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Edith Pargeter

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Christi Phillips

Eden Phillpotts

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Liane de Pougy

Liane de Pougy by Felix Nadar (1820-1921)
From: http://commons.wikimedia.org
Dawn Powell

Julie Powell

unknown
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
David A. Price

© 2003 Simon Bruty
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
J.B. Priestley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Barbara Pym

A. Quiller-Couch

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mrs. Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Cokie Roberts

Andrea di Robilant

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Sax Rohmer

M.J. Rose

Photo by Michael Bergman
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Edward Rutherford

Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Laurie Sheck

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
M.P. Shiel

Nell Shipman

Source: Libraries and Archives Canada
Dan Simmons

Charlotte Smith

Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Lady Eleanor Smith

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thorne Smith

Cecile Sorel

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Diana Souhami

Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Harriet Prescott Spofford

from Wikipedia
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joseph Von Sternberg

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Rebecca Stott

Nancy Rubin Stuart

Bruce Allen
Kate Summerscale

Gloria Swanson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Sarah Stewart Taylor

Photo by Jennifer Hauck

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Mary Heaton Vorse

Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
Dan Waddell

Maggie Hannan
Edward Wagenknecht, ed.

1964 photograph by Boston University Photo Services.
Kathryn Walker

Joyce Ravid
Hugh Walpole

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number
Wendy Wasserstein

2005 Jill Krementz
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson

Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Brenda Wineapple

2003 Joyce Ravid

P.G. Wodehouse


Mrs. Henry Wood

Reginald Easton, d. 1893, from Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood, 1894
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Charlotte Mary Yonge

Image from: Charlotte Mary Yonge by Christabel Coleridge. London: MacMillan and Co., 1903.
E.H. Young

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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