Samuel Taylor Coleridge Peter Vandyke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1795. London, National Portrait Gallery.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy.. Born of humble parents at Upper Bockhampton, near Dorchester. When left school, was apprenticed to a local architect and church.
The world of the theatre
Charles Dickens William Powell Frith, Portrait of Charles Dickens, London, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Charles Dickens