Design Pics/Historical RM Images

Mary Howitt, 1799 ??" 1888. English poet. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

Charles James Lever, 1806 ??" 1872. Irish novelist and raconteur. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

Esaias Tegn??r, 1782 ??" 1846. Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop. From The International Library of Famous Literature, publish...

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, 1804 - 1869. Literary critic of French literature. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1...

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813 ??" 1887. American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, speaker and supporter of the abolition of slavery. From Th...

American domestic grooms, armed and in livery, charged to carry the mantle and arms of their masters, to hold the stirrup etc. Part of the Grand Carou...

Henri Jules de Bourbon, 1643 ??" 1709, as an Indian king. Prince de Cond??, Duke of Enghien. Part of the Grand Carousel given by Louis XIV in front o...

Le Palais de la L??gion d'Honneur and la Cour des comptes, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by Fran??ois VIlleret. From L'Illus...

Les Grands Boulevards, from Le Boulevard des Italiens in the direction of Le Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the paint...

La Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by J. Canella. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

La Barri??re Monceau, Paris, France in the 19th century. After the painting by Johan Barthold Jongkind. From L'Illustration, published 1936.

Sir Edmund William Gosse, 1849 ??" 1928, seen here in his library. English poet, author and critic. From The International Library of Famous Litera...

Signature of Sir Edmund William Gosse, 1849 ??" 1928. English poet, author and critic. From The International Library of Famous Literature, publish...

John Bunyan's house in Harrowden, Bedford, England. John Bunyan, baptised 30 November 1628 ??" 1688. English writer and Puritan preacher. From The I...

John Bunyan, baptised 30 November 1628 ??" 1688. English writer and Puritan preacher. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published...

Alexander Pope, 1688 ??" 1744. 18th-century English poet. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

Joseph Addison, 1672 ??" 1719. English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c....

Jonathan Swift, 1667 ??" 1745. Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who...

Charles Reade, 1814 ??" 1884. English novelist and dramatist. From The International Library of Famous Literature, published c. 1900

A chart of strata, layers of sedimentary rock or soil. From The World's Foundations or Geology for Beginners, published 1883.

Skeleton of a Megatharium. From The World's Foundations or Geology for Beginners, published 1883.

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). A species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. From The World's Foundations or Geology fo...

A stalactite cavern. From The World's Foundations or Geology for Beginners, published 1883.

George V, George Frederick Ernest Albert, 1865 to 1936. King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India.

John Fletcher, 1579??"1625. Jacobean playwright. From International Library of Famous Literature, published c.1900

Anne Hathaway's cottage, Shottery, Warwickshire, England. Anne Hathaway c. 1555/56 ??" 1623. Wife of William Shakespeare. From International Librar...

James Henry Leigh Hunt, 1784 ??" 1859, aka Leigh Hunt. English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. From International Library of Famous Literature,...

Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch, 1827 ??" 1900. Scottish soldier and colonial administrator. Seen here aged 22. From The Strand Magazine, publ...

Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch, 1827 ??" 1900. Scottish soldier and colonial administrator. Seen here aged 39. From The Strand Magazine, publ...

Belle Cole, 1853??"1905. American contralto. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June 1894.

Mandell Creighton, 1843 ??" 1901. British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June 1894.

Mandell Creighton, 1843 ??" 1901. British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June 1894.

Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, 1832 ??" 1901. British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, an...

Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, 1832 ??" 1901. British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, an...

Sir Richard Temple II, 1st Baronet, 1826 ??" 1902. Seen here aged 20. Administrator in British India and a British politician. From The Strand Magazi...

Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812 ??" 1870. English writer and social critic of the VIctorian era. Seen here aged 30. From The Strand Magazine, publ...

Charles Dickens as Captain Bobadil in the paly by Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour. Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812 ??" 1870. English writer a...

Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812 ??" 1870. English writer and social critic of the VIctorian era. Seen here aged 51. From The Strand Magazine, publ...

Charles Dickens reading to his daughters in 1845. English writer and social critic of the VIctorian era. From The Strand Magazine, published January...

Mexican handcuffs. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June 1894.

Augustus Legge, 1839 - 1913. Bishop of Lichfield. Seen here aged 19. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June 1894.

Augustus Legge, 1839 - 1913. Bishop of Lichfield. Seen here aged 55. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June 1894.

Isabel, Lady Burton, 1831 ??" 1896, n??e Isabel Arundell. Writer and the wife and partner of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Bu...

DaVId Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, 1863 ??" 1945. British statesman of the Liberal Party, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Min...

Andrew Bonar Law, 1858 ??" 1923, commonly called Bonar Law. British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister. From Forty Wonderful Years, pub...

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 1867 ??" 1947. British statesman of the Conservative Party and three times Prime Minister of the United...

Alexander III, 1845 ??" 1894. Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June, 189...

Alexander III, 1845 ??" 1894. Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June, 189...

Alexander III, 1845 ??" 1894. Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. From The Strand Magazine, published January to June, 189...

Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, 1846 ??" 1900. British peer and Conservative Party politician. From The Strand Magazine, published January...