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Maggie Tulliver, having cut off her hair and run away from home, is offered a share		Taking the waters at Handley Spa: Sir Thomas Trout in bathchair face-to-face with		Jane Austen Persuasion. Austen's last novel published 1818. Anne Elliot complimented		Abaddon angel of the bottomless pit, Mammon god of this world and personification		Cassandra: legendary Greek prophetess, daughter of Priam, king of Troy, and Hecuba
The smith threatening Leonard Holt because he will not obey the Lord Mayor's		Bleak House by Charles Dickens in 1852-1823 the novel which satirised the misery		Hetty Sorrel, beloved of Adam Bede, meeting the young squire Arthur Donnithorne in		Sarah Siddons (born Kemble - 1755-1831) English actress. Mrs Siddons as Lady Randolph		Blaize, the grocer Bloundel's porter, testing all the 'patent' cures
Adam Bede, the village carpenter, in the workshop, his dog Gyp on a pile of shavings		Shakespeare King Lear first performed c1605 Lear, betrayed by his daughters Goneril		Shakespeare Othello Act 5: Desdemona and Emilia lie dead, Othello has stabbed himself		William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English novelist and short story writer. Maugham		Mr Thomas Hardy composing a lyric', 1913. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist
Chowles the coffin maker and Judith Malmayns the plague nurse, dying with their stolen		Dante, guided by Virgil, in third gulf of the eighth circle, observes those guilty		The Ghost of Christmas Present appearing to Scrooge. Illustration by John Leech		Christmas Eve at Mr Wardle's. Mr Pickwick kisses a lady under the mistletoe bough		Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English poet, classical scholar and linguist
Will watching and listening at his friend's deathbed		Amabel Bloundel's body being carried from the Earl of Rochester's house into		The Duel: Captain Disbrowe dying trying to defend his wife's honour from St Paul		Jane Austen (1775-1817) c1810, 1902. English novelist remembered for her six great		The Red Shoes Fairy story by Hans Christian Andersen. Karen in her magic red shoes
Gulliver walking about on the table at the inn as Glumdalcitch, his little Brobdingnagian		Tom and Maggie Tulliver being run down by machinery from Dolcote Mill that has broken		William Brodie (d1788) prosperous Edinburgh cabinetmaker. Brodie had secret life		Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne in the		The first interview between Deacon William Brodie and his accomplice George Smith
Marley's ghost appearing to Scrooge. Illustration for Charles Dickens (1812-1870)		Ada Rehan (1860-1916) Irish-born actress, c1890. Here in the breeches role of Rosalind		Virginia Woolf (born Stephen - 1882-1941). English novelist, essayist and critic		Battle scene from a manuscript of Homer Iliad c300 AD. Biblioteca Ambrosiana Milan		Tom and Maggie Tulliver fishing in childhood It was one of their happy mornings
Mr Jorrocks, having retired early very drunk, sleepwalking during violent dream falls		Alonso, King of Naples, shipwrecked with his court on Prospero's enchanted island		Samuel Johnson (1756-1757) English lexicographer critic and writer		Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author and lexicographer. Johnson and James Boswell		Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was
Front cover of George Du Maurier Trilby, London, 1894, showing with the eponymous heroine		Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1861. Eppie the orphan, showing Silas Marner, the weaver		Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, c1880. Lamb used the pseudonym 'Elia'		Geoffrey Chaucer (c1345-1400) English poet		Dorlcote Mill, the home of the Tulliver family. Illustration from a late 19th century
Mrs Tulliver visiting lawyer Waken to ask him not to bid for Dorlcote Mill at the		Sir Paul Parravicin (left) gambling with Captain Disbrowe for his wife. Disbrowe lost		Achille Deveria (1800-1857) and Louis Boulanger (1806-1867) The Death of Romeo		Robert Burns (1759-176) Scottish poet, late 18th century. At the centre left is the		Shakespeare Othello Act 3 Sc.3: Iago leads Othello to believe that Desdemona is unfaithful
Title page of Adam Bede by George Eliot, from an edition of her collected novels published		Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) at his desk, 1902. AEW Mason, English novelist		Aunt Clegg, one of Mrs Tulliver's sisters, looking over the goods in Bob Jakin's		Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet and dramatist. From The Modern Portrait Gallery		Dante protected by Virgil from harm by demons. Dante Alighieri Inferno, first part
John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) English novelist, playwright, writer and broadcaster		Washington Irving (1782-1859) American man of letters, c1880. Author of Rip Van Winkle		Adam Bede, having got the better of Arthur Donnithorne in a fight, is horrified to		Blaize, the grocer's porter, buying plague antidotes, Plague of London, 1665		Dante and Virgil at the edge of the abyss from which a foetid smell steamed up: Canto XI
Saint Paul's being used as a pest house during the Plague of London (1665)		Canterbury Pilgrims from John of Lydgate (1370-1451ja) Story of Thebes written c1420		The Three Witches appearing to Macbeth and Banquo'. Scene in Shakespeare's		Sherlock Holmes, the detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle in the 1890s, as portrayed		Leonard Holt preventing the Earl of Rochester tricking Amabel with a false marriage
The Little Mermaid visiting the undersea witch for spell to help win love of prince		Lilly, the astrologer and Quatremain, the minor canon, digging for treasure in St		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet		The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens, 1841. Little Nell and her grandfather		Paul's Walk: the nave of Old Saint Paul's turned into a market place
Ada Rehan (1860-1916), Irish-born American actress, c1895. Here in the breeches role		Song of the Plague: Chowles the coffin maker, top centre, drinking a toast to a long		William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor, play first performed 1597 or 1600		Leonard Holt tying a packet of letters to the bottom of a rope so that the grocer		Shakespeare Hamlet Act 3 Sc 4. Ghost of Hamlet's father appearing to him to remind
William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing, play first performed c1598		The Dead Drummer. A legend of Salisbury Plain. Illustration by George Cruikshank		Brookbank, Shotter Mill, Surrey, where English novelist, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans		Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English lexicographer and man of letters, in 1748 waiting		Mary Anderson (1859-1940) American actress, c1895. Here as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
Death of Sir Philip Sydney'. Philip Sidney (1554-1586) English soldier, statesman		Walter Besant (1836-1901) English social reformer, novelist and editor. First chairman		Earl of Rochester and his dissolute friends staging a Dance of Death at Saint Paul's		Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1861. Eppie, at the age of three, has slipped out of		Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) British novelist and poet
Mike Macascree, the blind musician, terrifying Chowles and the death cart attendants		Illustration for A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Bob Cratchet carries		Ulysses on Ogygia. Ulysses, mythical king of Ithaca, hero of Homer's Odyssey		Old Saint Paul's burning during the Fire of London (1666)		Orphaned David Copperfield introduces himself to his aunt Betsy Trotwood. From Charles
Solomon Eagle denouncing the City of London from the parapet of St		Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English dramatist, c1890. After a series of comedies		Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) English man of letters. Professor of English literature		Mazeppa, Byron's poem published 1819, based on passage in Voltaire's Charles XII		Charles Dickens (1812-70) English novelist and journalist speaking at a Dulwich College
Pied Piper leading away children of German town of Hamelin		William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream First performed c1596. Act 2 Sc 2		Plan of the island of Utopia. From Thomas Moore's work depicting an ideal state		The Fairy Queen's Messenger: Illustration by R Doyle for a poem by William Allingham
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