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Joseph Addison

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Anna Letitia Barbauld

Project Gutenberg
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Simone De Beauvoir

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Walter Benjamin

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
James Boswell

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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
Edmund Burke

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Frances Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
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Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Judith P. Butler

Jreberlein
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

James Chandler

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Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Margaret Edson

Columbia University
George Eliot

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Olaudah Equiano

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Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
George Gissing

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Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Hamilton

Elizabeth Hamilton, 1758-1816 Image ©
ÖNB/WienEliza Haywood

Felicia Hemans

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Henrik Ibsen

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Elizabeth Inchbald

Wikimedia Commons
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Caroline Lamb

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Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Matthew 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)
Penelope Lively

Jack Lynch

courtesy author
Henry Mackenzie

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Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John Milton

W. J. T. Mitchell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Amelia Opie

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Jane Porter

Jane Porter (1776-1850) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRoy Porter

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel Richardson

Marilynne Robinson

Mary Robinson

Image from: Mrs. Mary Robinson: An Autobiography. London: The Grolier Society, 1900.
Nicholas Roe

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Susanna Rowson

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Arundhati Roy

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Olive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Charlotte Smith

Tobias George Smollett

from Wikipedia
Madame de Stael

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
Wallace Earle Stegner

Laurence Sterne

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Horace Walpole

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Mary Wollstonecraft

Courtesy of the
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Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Ruth Bernard Yeazell

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