RMG5E2RF–Prolific writer Elizabeth Harman, wife of Lord Longford and is a accompanied by Lady Antonia Fraser (R). The funeral of Lord Longford was held, at Westminster Cathedral in central London. * Lord Longford born Francis Aungier Pakenham, the 7th Earl of Longford, died age 95. He attracted criticism for his long fight on behalf of Moors Murderer Hindley but campaigned on a host of other issues. 23/10/02 Lady Longford died peacefully at home aged 96.
RM2M97X4F–Cartoon of George Robert Sims (1847-1922), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist. Despite his uncertain health through over-indulging, he was a prolific writer.
RM2E1NTK3–HARRIET MARTINEAU (1802-1876) English social theorist and prolific writer often considered as the first female sociologist.
RM2M98BR2–Cartoon, George Robert Sims (1847-1922), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist, seen here dressed as a policeman. Despite his uncertain health through over-indulging, he was a prolific writer. The caption reads: Horrible London!
RM2CCHBMX–Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays. Photo: September 4, 1933.
RM2B37FPT–A selection of the books of Danielle Steel - prolific popular author
RM2B012H3–China: Guo Moruo (Kuo Mo-jo, 1892-1978), was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist and government official from Sichuan, China, c. 1940s. Guo joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. He was involved in the Communist Nanchang Uprising and fled to Japan after its failure. He stayed there for 10 years studying Chinese ancient history. In the summer of 1937, soon after the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Guo returned to China to join the anti-Japanese resistance. Along with holding important government offices in the People's Republic of China, Guo was a prolific writer.
RM2M9BMM5–HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, friend of Dr Johnson, Horace Walpole etc. : a relatively young portrait.
RMD8BYHW–Margaret Cavendish, nee Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1623 – 1673. English aristocrat, prolific writer and scientist.
RMKJ1MTD–Frontispiece from De Cometis by John Gadbury. John Gadbury (1627-1704) an English astrologer, and prolific writer of almanacs and other subjects. Dated 17th Century
RMH3A9N9–Signature of Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón, 1881 – 1958. Spanish poet and prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
RMPAXA1M–Portrait medal of Giovanni Giovano Pontano. Artist: Adriano Fiorentino (Adriano di Giovanni de' Maestri) (Italian, Florence (?) born ca. 1450-60, died 1499 Florence). Dimensions: Diam. 8.4 cm, wt. 219.38 g.. Date: model last quarter 15th century (cast 16th century). Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was a humanist and prolific writer in Latin. He was also an educator at the royal house of Aragon in Naples, where he served as tutor to Ferdinand II and secretary to his mother, Ippolita Sforza. Pontano later turned against his Aragonese patrons in writings endorsing their enemy, Louis XII of France. T
RMT7TT2D–Holy Hieronymus (347-420) by Justus van Gent 1435 - 1500 Antwerp South Netherlandish Flemish Belgian, ( Best known for his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate (391–405), Jerome also was a prolific writer of letters, biblical commentaries, sermons, and theological tracts, as well as a translator of many Greek works into Latin. )
RMH2CY2J–Richard Whately (1787 –1863) was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.
RMG15MMH–Raymond Pearl (June 3, 1879 - November 17, 1940) was an American biologist. He was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed popularizer and communicator of science. At his death, 841 publications were listed against
RMPX77C5–Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists. Jonson however, called Dekker a bumbling hack, a 'dresser of plays about town'and lampooned him Poetaster and Cynthia's Revels. Dekker's riposte, Satiromastix cast Jonson as an affected, hypocritical Horace.
RM2GA551W–Turkey: Ahmed Midhat Efendi (Ahmet Mithat; 1844 - 1912), author and journalist, and publisher of the Tercuman-I Hakikat newspaper from 1878. He was a prolific writer, with more than 250 of his works having survived.
RMRAPD4F–John Gadbury (1627–1704) was an English astrologer, and a prolific writer of almanacs and on other related topics. Initially a follower or disciple, and a defender in the 1650s, of William Lilly, he eventually turned against Lilly and denounced him in 1675 as fraudulent. He became a High Tory and Catholic convert. He had a number of brushes with the authorities: imprisonment (wrongful) at the time of the Popish Plot and suspicion later of plotting against William III of England; also criticised for omitting Guy Fawkes Day from his almanacs.
RMMBD3XX–Occultist - The psychic researcher, author and journalist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. He is sometimes called Conan Doyle. Conan was originally a middle name but he used it as part of his surname in his later yea
RM2B02YPH–Guo Moruo (Wade–Giles: Kuo Mo-jo; November 16, 1892 – June 12, 1978) was a Chinese author, poet, historian, communist intellectual and government official from Sichuan. Guo joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. Along with holding important government offices in the People's Republic of China, Guo was a prolific writer, not just of poetry but also fiction, plays, autobiographies, translations, and historical and philosophical treatises. He was the first President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and remained so from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1978. He was also the first p
RMG43FCC–Author Sir Kingsley Amis who died today (Sunday) at the age of 73. Sir Kingsley was a prolific writer of novels, essays and poems which gained him a massive and devoted readership.
RM2E1NTK5–HARRIET MARTINEAU (1802-1876) English social theorist and prolific writer often considered as the first female sociologist in an engraving about 1835.
RM2BFPNC6–Engraved portrait of Thomas Edmund Harvey (1875 – 1955), generally known as Edmund Harvey, English museum curator, social reformer and politician. He sat in Parliament, and was a prolific writer on Christianity and the role and history of the Society of Friends.
RM2CCHBMR–Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays. Photo: September 4, 1933.
RM2B37G2F–A selection of the books of Danielle Steel - prolific popular author
RMF5FHPY–Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays.
RM2M9BMMA–HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, her best known work 'Coelebs in search of a wife' : friend of Johnson, Horace Walpole etc.
RM2B02RYT–Carl Gustav Jung ( 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuati
RMKJ1MRY–Title page of De Cometis by John Gadbury. John Gadbury (1627-1704) an English astrologer, and prolific writer of almanacs and other subjects. Dated 17th Century
RM2AW4T4G–1658 , GREAT BRITAIN : The english nobleman astronomer and astrologist JOHN GADBURY ( 1627 – 1704 ) . Prolific writer of almanacs and on other relate
RMD9887T–Roman copy of a Hellenistic bust of Chrysippus of Soli c. 279–c. 206 BC. Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Cleanthes, and his successor, in 230 BC, as third head of the Stoic school. A prolific writer, Chrysippus expanded the fundamental doctrines of Zeno of Citium, the founder of the school, which earned Chrysippus the title of Second Founder of Stoicism.
RM2DT5M89–Artist: Peter Pelham, American, born England, 1697–1751, Cotton Mather (1663- 1728), Mezzotint, sheet: 35.24 × 25.56 cm (13 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.), Newly arrived in the colonies in 1727, Peter Pelham asked the venerable Congregational minister Cotton Mather to sit for the engraver’s first mezzotint portrait to be made on American soil—evidence of Pelham’s business acumen and his eagerness to establish a reputation in this country. Mather—a prolific writer, scholar, and minister of the Second Church in Boston—was perhaps the most celebrated of all New England Puritans. Though Mather posed for
RMPB51DP–Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767-1830). Culture: French. Dimensions: Overall (irregular diameter, confirmed): 5 5/8 × 5 9/16 × 1 1/16 in. (14.2 × 14.2 × 2.7 cm). Maker: Medalist: Pierre Jean David d'Angers (French, Angers 1788-1856 Paris). Date: 1830. Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or Benjamin Constant, was a political activist and a prolific writer. In the eighteen-twenties and thirties, he influenced liberal movements and revolutions across Europe, Brazil, and Mexico. Constant took a government position in the French First Empire under Napoleon until 1802, when he and the inf
RMG15MMJ–Raymond Pearl (June 3, 1879 - November 17, 1940) was an American biologist. He was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed popularizer and communicator of science. At his death, 841 publications were listed against
RF2AXW8PD–Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), American author and journalist wrote the biography of his father, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife (1884). As a prolific writer of short stories, poems, novels, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories, though never really achieving critical acclaim for his own works, Hawthorne lived in the shadow of his father and Hawthorne and His Circle (1903) illustrates this as both blessing and burden.
RM2F6YDJC–A 1950s advert for Sir Winston Churchill’s series of books, ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples’ – it appeared in British magazine in 1956. This advertises the first book in the series of four volumes, ‘The Birth of Britain’ available in a mail-order, illustrated ‘Chartwell’ edition. Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was, in addition to his careers as a soldier and politician, a prolific writer as ‘Winston S Churchill' – vintage nineteen-fifties graphics for editorial use.
RMPTBJ17–Hans-Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish author, prolific writer of fairy tales and famous for his children's stories. Engraving.
RM2GN097K–Austin Texas USA, circa 1990: American author JAMES MICHENER on the balcony of his home overlooking Lake Austin. He lived there while researching and writing his 1985 historical novel, 'Texas.'
RMTXH2H4–Annie S(hepherd) Swan (1859-1943) Scottish popular novelist and writer, born in Edinburgh. Produced up to 150 books between 1880 and 1926, most of which appeared between 1880 and 1900. From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).
RM2F7R0F5–A portrait of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873), a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as La Peregrina (The Pilgrim), she was a prolific writer and wrote 20 plays and numerous poems. Her most famous work, however, is the antislavery novel Sab, published in Madrid in 1841. The artist is Federico de Madrazo (1815-1894) a Spanish painter.
RMWH9FHH–Desiderius Erasmus (c.1446-1536). Dutch scholar and leading humanist of the Renaissance era, who studied and taught all over Europe and was a prolific writer.
RM2DDD8F9–L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000), was a very prolific writer of novels, particularly fantasy and science fiction, having written more than 100 books. de Camp is credited with being the writer who first coined the abbreviation 'E.T.' when referring to Extraterrestrials. This photo was done relating to publicity for his book, 'The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate.' Photo by Eynon To see my other author-related images, Search: Prestor vintage writer
RM2JD6BGT–HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, friend of Dr Johnson, Horace Walpole etc. : a relatively young portrait. Colourised version of : 10166604 Date: 1745 - 1833
RF2DYPCG9–Moguer, Spain. Monument to Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish and prolific writer. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956
RMF5FH8E–Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays.
RM2M9BMKJ–HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, her best-known work 'Coelebs in search of a wife' ; friend of Johnson, Horace Walpole etc.
RMGE7WGA–G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (shown c1912) was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays.
RMG3D2EM–Gyp - prolific French writer
RF2D50NNT–La Puebla de los Infantes, Spain. Sign of a street dedicated to Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish and prolific writer. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956
RM2K0AE9R–Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is sometimes called the 'father of science fiction'
RM2M3RM9K–Mrs Alexander McCorquodale, aka prolific writer, Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), pictured with her newborn daughter Raine (1929-2016), later Countess Raine Spencer, stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. Date: 1929
RMKCEW0X–1969 Brooke Bond collectors tea card, depicting: Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946)—known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a 'father of science fiction',
RM2M98HA6–George Mogridge (1787-1854), prolific English writer, poet and children's author, also known as Old Humphrey.
RMRJ930J–Benjamin Ward Richardson's sketch of a model city called 'Hygeiopolis'. Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-1896) a British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history. Dated 19th century
RMAA1EGA–Thomas Birch Writer
RMHHG9H6–Title Page of 1775 edition of 'Oeconomie générale de la campagne, ou Nouvelle maison rustique', Paris, 1700. By Louis Liger (1658–1717), French agronomist and prolific writer on flora and fauna. This was a guide to horticulture for country dwellers
RMR44XCY–Hans-Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish author, prolific writer of fairy tales and famous for his children's stories. Engraving. Later colouration
RM2G69CXP–Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. From the book ' The viking Bodleys; an excursion into Norway and Denmark ' by Horace Elisha Scudder Published in Boston, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1885 from the BODLEY FAMILY series of books
RM2M3T14G–The prolific English author Edmee Elizabeth Monica Dashwood (1890-1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, and Lorna Lewis, British writer (?-1962) at Viscountess Rhondda's Literary 'Rout' (an evening party in Bloomsbury, London).
RMBN2W3E–GEORGES SIMENON (1903-1989) prolific Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Maigret
RF2HBFBCD–Origen of Alexandria (184-253) was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises
RM2JD6BJP–HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, her best-known work 'Coelebs in search of a wife' ; friend of Johnson, Horace Walpole etc. Colourised version of : 10166605 Date: 1745 - 1833
RM2G783CY–Machine colorized image of Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. From the book ' The viking Bodleys; an excursion into Norway and Denmark ' by Horace Elisha Scudder Published in Boston, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1885 from the BODLEY FAMILY series of books
RMC6127J–James Brendan Connolly, (1868-1957), athlete and writer, was the first athlete to win a medal at the 1896 Olympics for the triple jump. He became a popular and prolific writer of sea-related shorts stories and novels. Photo by Purdy, 1906.
RM2B012F5–China/New Zealand: Rewi Alley (2 December 1897 - 27 December 1987), New Zealand revolutionary and member of the Chinese Communist Party. Rewi Alley was a prolific western writer about 20th century China, and especially about the Communist revolution. He dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause of the Communist Party of China, and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, and technical training schools, including the Peili Vocational Institute in Beijing.
RMGE7WGD–G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (shown c1912) was a leading British author, thinker, arts critic, journalist, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays.
RM2B012F6–China: Rewi Alley (2 December 1897 - 27 December 1987), New Zealand revolutionary and member of the Chinese Communist Party, 20th century. Rewi Alley was a prolific western writer about 20th century China, and especially about the Communist revolution. He dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause of the Communist Party of China, and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, and technical training schools, including the Peili Vocational Institute in Beijing.
RM2FX302Y–Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936), known as G.K. Chesterton, shown c1914, was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays.
RM2B016DM–Japan: Portrait of Jippensha Ikku (1765 – 12 September 1831), Japanese writer. Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), 19th century. Jippensha Ikku, real name Shigeta Sadakazu, was a prolific Japanese writer from the late Edo period. He lived primarily in Edo (Tokyo) in the service of samurai, but also spent some time in Osaka as a townsman. He was among the most prolific yellow-backed novel (kibyōshi) writers of his time - between 1795 and 1801 he wrote a minimum of twenty novels a year, and thereafter wrote sharebon, kokkeibon and over 360 illustrated stories (gokan).
RMRKD5T5–James Fenimore Cooper, drawing by Morin, 1853 (September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half
RM2KAXDKP–Samar Samir Mezghanni- ATunisian/Iraqi writer with two records in Guinness Book for World Records as the youngest writer and the most prolific writer in the world moderating discussion and audience Q&A during the White Hemet's visit in Toronto, Canada, on April 3, 2018. (Photo by Arindam Shivaani/NurPhoto)
RM2D1KF2B–Popular Japanese author turned Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi speaks during an interview with a Reuters reporter in Kyoto, Japan February 21, 2008. A prolific writer who also makes frequent television appearances, she is in huge demand on the lecture circuit as an expert on the 11th century epic romance 'The Tale of Genji', which is celebrating its 1000th anniversary this year. To match feature JAPAN GENJI/ REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota (JAPAN)
RM2HGY190–Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767–1830) 1830 Medalist: Pierre Jean David d'Angers Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or Benjamin Constant, was a political activist and a prolific writer. In the eighteen-twenties and thirties, he influenced liberal movements and revolutions across Europe, Brazil, and Mexico. Constant took a government position in the French First Empire under Napoleon until 1802, when he and the infamous Madame de Staël, who was his mistress, fell out of favor, forcing the couple to flee to Germany. After the Bourbon Reconstruction, Constant returned to Paris and defe
RMAH90KR–Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1623 - 1673.English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright
RMHHG9HE–Harvesting scene, from the 1775 edition of 'Oeconomie générale de la campagne, ou Nouvelle maison rustique', Paris, 1700. By Louis Liger (1658–1717), French agronomist and prolific writer on flora and fauna. This was a guide to horticulture for country dwellers
RM2HHW0MA–Portrait medal of Giovanni Giovano Pontano model last quarter 15th century (cast 16th century) Adriano Fiorentino (Adriano di Giovanni de' Maestri) Italian Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was a humanist and prolific writer in Latin. He was also an educator at the royal house of Aragon in Naples, where he served as tutor to Ferdinand II and secretary to his mother, Ippolita Sforza. Pontano later turned against his Aragonese patrons in writings endorsing their enemy, Louis XII of France. The medal's reverse shows the personifcation of Urania holding a lyre and a starry globe, an allusion to a poem by
RM2G69CPY–Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. From the book ' The viking Bodleys; an excursion into Norway and Denmark ' by Horace Elisha Scudder Published in Boston, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1885 from the BODLEY FAMILY series of books
RM2H427GD–Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, 1836 –1917, usually known as F. C. Burnand. English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box. From The World and his Wife, published, June 1906.
RMBN2W4G–GEORGES SIMENON (1903-1989) prolific Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Maigret
RF2JCJAFB–The 1895 caption reads: ' He half stood half crouched over the board from A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby.' Guy Newell Boothby (died 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. A Bid for Fortune was first published in 1895.
RM2JD6BH8–HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, her best known work 'Coelebs in search of a wife' : friend of Johnson, Horace Walpole etc. Colourised version of : 10166607 Date: 1745 - 1833
RM2A78HFK–C1930s Newspaper portrait of prolific British writer and teacher Stephen Southwold (1887–1964). He was born Stephen Henry Critten but wrote under pseudonyms wrote as Neil Bell and also wrote as Miles, Stephen Green, S. H. Lambert, and Paul Marten.
RMD8ABTY–WILLIAM BLACK, WRITER
RMKK9288–A photographic portrait of John Masefield, he was an English writer and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, he was a prolific artist creating many volumes of poems, novels and plays, he is best known for his children's fantasy novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, 1913. From the New York Public Library.
RMG3BMK2–THOMAS BIRCH, WRITER
RMCEFHNC–Early portrait of John Banville
RM2FX3031–Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936), known as G.K. Chesterton, shown c1914, was a leading British author, thinker, journalist, arts critic, debater, lay theologian and Christian apologist of the early 20th Century. A prolific writer, he published nearly 100 books and over 4,000 newspaper columns and essays.
RM2B016DK–Japan: Portrait of Jippensha Ikku (1765 – 12 September 1831), Japanese writer. Illustration by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), 19th century. Jippensha Ikku, real name Shigeta Sadakazu, was a prolific Japanese writer from the late Edo period. He lived primarily in Edo (Tokyo) in the service of samurai, but also spent some time in Osaka as a townsman. He was among the most prolific yellow-backed novel (kibyōshi) writers of his time - between 1795 and 1801 he wrote a minimum of twenty novels a year, and thereafter wrote sharebon, kokkeibon and over 360 illustrated stories (gokan).
RMR9F9HR–Hymn writer Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) was one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing over 9000 hymns and gospel songs, despite being blind from shortly after birth.
RMD89TBR–GEORGE DANIEL, WRITER
RMRPK79C–Horatius Bonar (1808-1890), a Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland and a prolific hymn writer.
RM2D1K3FA–Popular Japanese author turned Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi speaks during an interview with a Reuters reporter in Kyoto, Japan February 21, 2008. A prolific writer who also makes frequent television appearances, she is in huge demand on the lecture circuit as an expert on the 11th century epic romance 'The Tale of Genji', which is celebrating its 1000th anniversary this year. To match feature JAPAN GENJI/ REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota (JAPAN)
RMHHG9HD–Farming and ciltivation scene, from the 1775 edition of 'Oeconomie générale de la campagne, ou Nouvelle maison rustique', Paris, 1700. By Louis Liger (1658–1717), French agronomist and prolific writer on flora and fauna. This was a guide to horticulture for country dwellers
RMDP8A22–FRANCISCO UMBRAL, also Paco Umbral, (May 11, 1935 - August 28, 2007) was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist. A prolific writer who was an acerbic observer of his contemporary Spain, died early Tuesday, the hospital treating him said. He was 72. Won many awards including: Gabriel Miró National Prize for Stories (1964), Carlos Arniches de la SGAE (1975), Premio
RM2CRGY24–A woman brings yellow flowers to the doorstep of the home of Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Mexico City April 19, 2014. Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on Thursday. He was 87. A prolific writer who started out as a newspaper reporter, Garcia Marquez's masterpiece was 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' a dream-like, dynastic epic that helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez died at his home
RF2HW3YXP–Art inspired by Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), writer, 1844–56, French, Bronze, Diameter: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Medals and Plaquettes, Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth, Classic works modernized by Artotop with a splash of modernity. Shapes, color and value, eye-catching visual impact on art. Emotions through freedom of artworks in a contemporary way. A timeless message pursuing a wildly creative new direction. Artists turning to the digital medium and creating the Artotop NFT
RMBN2W4X–GEORGES SIMENON (1903-1989) prolific Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Maigret
RMEJJK2P–Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748), English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymn writer
RMG16AWE–William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. One of the most prolific and popular English authors of the 20th century. After losing both his parents by the age of 10, he was rai
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