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Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte:
Women writers in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were sometimes widely read but almost never seen or heard. They did not give public readings of their work or appear in bookshops signing autographed copies of their wares. These low profiles were reflected in the number of postcards of them available for sale. Cards Those which could be purchased during the Golden Age of Postcards are well illustrated in this volume.
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Leo Tolstoy And Mikhail Lermontov
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Lermontov
Tolstoy, the most acclaimed of Russian authors, was so famous internationally that it is difficult to recall that other Russian fiction writers were as-or even more-popular with readers in Russia. Lermontov is one of those rivals, though it is Tolstoy who garnered the highest number of postcards in the early years of the medium. This book highlights the majestic range of cards printed to honour Tolstoy while alerting today's reader to the large number of cards in praise of Lermontov. With extensive explanatory text and captions.
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Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Aretino
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Aretino
This quartet of classic Italian literary masters features the majority of antique and vintage postcards related to each author. The largest selection belongs to Boccaccio, long the most popular of these writers, both with Italians and foreigners, his Decameron easily one of the most cherished works of literature ever written. His tales of how people behaved during a pandemic is particularly relevant to our own time
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson And Franz Grillparzer
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Franz Grillparzer
While hardly a household name in the English-speaking world, Bjørnson was-and remains-an immensely important literary figure in the Nordic world, a rival in popularity to his Norwegian compatriot Hendrik Ibsen. Grillparzer, likewise, though little known outside Europe, was widely admired in his native Austria. As a result, postcards of both writers were available in vast quantities during the Golden Age, and a healthy assortment of examples are presented throughout this book, in tandem with informative text about each author.
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William Shakespeare
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare:
hundreds of postcards, most over a century old, illustrating the life of the Bard, from his birth through to his burial, along with cards showing his family, his life in London, the statues raised in his honour, and dozens of painted scenes from his plays.
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Gabriele D'annunzio
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Gabriele D'Annunzio
Still venerated in some quarters in Italy as a war hero, and regarded by most Italians as one of its most important 20th century authors, D'Annunzio's life is illustrated by 140 rarely seen postcards more than a century old. An engaging text offers a summary of his, one complicated by his infamous love affairs with Europe's best known actresses, daring raids on enemy cities, and full-throated support for Mussolini.
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Friedrich Schiller
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards Friedrich Schiller:
Almost 200 antique postcards of this influential German poet. Most of these postcards are appearing in a book for the first time. The engaging text provides context for the attractive illustrations and provides a highly readable outline of his life and legacy.
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Rudyard Kipling And Hall Caine
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Rudyard Kipling and Hall Caine
Rudyard Kipling and Hall Caine: Known as the Poet of Empire, Rudyard Kipling was a bestselling author as a poet-something which can be said about few poets anywhere today. Hundreds of different images related to the man were issued while he was alive, all lauding his talent. Hall Caine was another authors whose stories, novels, and plays were prodigious favourites with Victorian and Edwardian audiences. Postcards of him abounded during his time.
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Colette And Anatole France
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Colette and Anatole France
Custom Vintage Themed Thanksgiving Greeting Cards- A cornucopia of postcards depicting the notorious French author as she was in old age, accompanied by several images of her when she was lithe, naughty, and unambiguous about her delight in both men and women.
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Caedmon, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, John Bunyan
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Caedmon, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, John Bunyan:
Any college level introduction to English literature is highly likely to include study of these four pillars of the canon. Likenesses of Caedmon are non-existent so he is known in postcards almost exclusively by a huge Celtic cross in Whitby, England. No sure portrait of Chaucer exists either, but hos fame as a poet became so great after his death that a few ancient artists attempted his depiction. Milton is most often represented on postcards via pictures of one of his residences which still stands. In contrast, Bunyan can be associated with several sites, all of which are well interpreted by a multitude of antique imagery fully reproduced in this volume.
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Molière, Pierre Corneille, Pierre Beaumarchais, Pierre Abelard
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Molière, Pierre Corneille, Pierre Beaumarchais, Pierre Abelard:
Each member of this quartet has a secure place in the Pantheon of French-language literature, a fact reflected in the abundance of antique postcards which celebrated them in the years either side of 1900. Many, perhaps the bulk of these postcards have never before been published in a book-until now.
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Robert Burns And Sir Walter Scott
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott
This book includes an unprecedented selection of postcards, most more than 100 years old-or older, portraying high points of their biographies, accompanied by informative captions and texts outlining essential elements of their lives. With plenty of rarely-seen cards depicting the monuments around the globe erected to commemorate their lives and work.
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Lord Byron, Percy Byshhe Shelley, John Keats
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Byron, Shelley, Keats
The three most famous Romantic poets in English were notorious in their day and have remained so more than two centuries later. As soon as picture postcards became commonly available in the 1890s, these three writers were frequent subjects, two of them famous for the poetry but even more so for their disreputable private lives, spiced with escapades that shock us even today for their audacity. The text addresses the scandal and the literary work, employing full captions to help explain the ongoing popularity of these young giants.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oren Arnold, Sholem Aleichem, Ernest Hemingway
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oren Arnold, Sholem Aleichem, Ernest Hemingway:
Two of this quartet are obviously giants of American literature; the other two had a substantial readership during their heyday. Of these latter two, Aleichem is moderately known beyond the sphere of those who read Yiddish due to the success of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof based on his work. Though Hemingway was a Nobel laureate and a world famous celebrity, he spent most of his life out of the public eye, feeling no need to pose for postcard publishers. Fitzgerald had a more troubled life, with the result that he, too, has few vintage cards attached to his name. What examples there of both men are included in this volume.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau:
No other small town in the United States can claim as many renowned creative writers among its former residents as Concord, Massachusetts. Of this quartet of names, all but Thoreau were nationally famous while they were alive. By the time picture postcards became widely available in the 1890s all four writers were in the canon of American letters, a distinction reflected in the high number of antique postcards of them published during the Golden Age of the medium. This volume offers an impressively broad selection of those pioneering depictions.
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Authorized Images, Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Mark Twain
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Mark Twain
Perhaps more comfortable in front of a camera than any author ever, Twain is seen in this entry in conjunction with the place where he was born, and then with his home in Hannibal, Missouri, and then finally with his residences on the eastern seaboard. This essay is replete with paragraphs offering little-known biographic details, supplemented with vintage cards of scenes from his most acclaimed books.
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Dante Alighieri
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri :
A huge selection of vintage images from the 1890's up to the 1960's. The postcards show the man alone as imagined by a variety of artists, with his great love Beatrice, and even as an advocate of the fascist cause in WWII. With extensive biographical text and captions giving dates and context.
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Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Homer, Sappho, and Aeschylus
While obviously these authors lived long before the invention of photography, picture postcards related to them are plentiful-whether this be imagined portraits or depictions by artists of scenes from their creative writing. This book presents dozens of the finest of these cards issued during the decades between the 1890 to the 1930s.
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James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant
In any census of the pioneers of American literature, these three will always have a position of honour. Cooper's Leatherstocking novels (e.g., Last of the Mohicans) were the first USA fictions to find a wide readership in Europe. Poe's reputation took longer to build, but posthumously his star rose considerably, forcing his compatriots to pay greater attention to his work and applaud his genius. Bryant is less read now than he was-but his influence once was huge-not merely in the world of books, but in changing the face of his beloved New York City (think Bryant Park or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both of which he created). Pioneering postcards of all three men were plentiful and are on abundant display in this volume, with explanatory text and informative captions.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold
Robert Browning And his wife Elizabeth gained fame in the Victorian Age not only as two of the century's most important English poets but also because of their scandalous elopement, escape from London, and settlement in Italy. By the standards of straight-laced Britain, their behaviour was amoral, with the result that few postcards of them were commercially available during the Golden Age of postcards. Those which were are well represented in this volume. Matthew Arnold, by contrast, was an Establishment figure featured in several postcards from the turn of the century-most of them presented in this book.
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J.m. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie
J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie: Literary Chronicles in Antique Postcards- Though best known today for his creation Peter Pan, in his day J.M. Barrie was renowned as much for other stage works and his fiction-with the result he was a popular subject of postcards in his lifetime, many of them available in this volume. Thomas Hardy remains a giant of UK letters, and both he and his fiction are also well represented. By contrast, Agatha Christie was rarely seen in public and few postcards of her were issued during her active years. Those which were issued are included in this volume.
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Miguel De Cervantes And Luis De Camões
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images: Iberian Duo- Miguel de Cervantes, Luis de Camões
Though the Spanish author Cervantes is much more celebrated internationally than his Portuguese counterpart Luid de Camões, it is an oddity of postcard history that the latter was feted far more in his country than the creator of Don Quixote was in his. Nonetheless, this book gives today's reader a comprehensive look at the postcards related to both authors which were available during the Golden Age of the medium: 1890 to 1930. Easily accessible text describes the key moments in the lives of each writer, and full captions clarify the contents of the images.
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Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
American postcard publishers were generally very good in honouring their nation's most celebrated authors by providing buyers with a plethora of picture postcards featuring busts of the writers or images of their homes or other views somehow related to their lives and careers. This was especially true of Longfellow who is represented in this volume by almost 300 different cards. The exception was Emily Dickinson who, being a famous recluse, was almost invisible from the postcard world. The examples in this book are the only ones known related to her from the pioneering decades of postcards.
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Charles Dickens
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Charles Dickens
Well over 100 venerable postcards of one of the world's most beloved novelists, most appearing in book form for the first time. Covering the writer's entire life, the images are supported by extensive captions giving information about the postcards themselves as well as their relationship to the author's biography. Also plentiful are rare illustrations of scenes from his best-known work.
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Jean De La Fontaine, Honoré De Balzac, Charles Baudelaire
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: La Fontaine, Balzac, and Baudelaire
The many fables of La Fontain, written in French so refined many in that nation consider his writing the quintessence of their language. Balzac, famous for how much coffee he drank (50 or more cups per day) as much for his novels-and for constantly being in debt-was the author of dozens of bestsellers. In contrast, Baudelaire, a poet, was no bestseller but he was extremely well regarded by the Bohemian world and his reputation has continued to rise to ever more heights since his death. This book discusses the wide range of postcards issued at the turn of the century in celebration of this trio's awesome literary talent.
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Alexandre Dumas, Père And Gustave Flaubert
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Alexandre Dumas, père & Gustave Flaubert
The author of The Count of Monte Cristo and of The Three Musketeers has always been in print in both his native France and abroad, resulting in hundreds of unique postcards reflecting deep appreciation of his life and work were om sale in the early years of the 20th century. Flaubert, most known for his novel Madame Bovary, operated on a higher plane but still managed to attract a large following, perhaps partly because of the sexual and moral notoriety attached to his best-known work. Parisian printers honoured both with a myriad of handsome cards, a broad selection of which are presented in this volume, in the company of biographical prose and full captions.
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Daniel Defoe And Andrew Marvell
by Greg Gatenby
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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Daniel Defoe and Andrew Marvell
The Tale of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe remains one of the most widely translated of English novels. The best of Marvell's poems remain compulsory reading for every college student who has taken a course in English literature 101. Both authors are represented here by a selection of rare antique postcards associated with their lives, legacy, and works.
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