Category: Novelists

Bella Rosenfeld

(1889–1944) Bella Rosenfeld Chagall Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал Marc, Bella and their daughter Ida, Paris 1924. Bella in Art: Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc 1917 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris   Born December 14 1889 Vitebsk (Belarus) Died September 2 1944 Tupper Lake,…

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

(1803–1873) Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC Works: • A Strange Story (English) • Athens: Its Rise and Fall (English) • Devereux (English) • Ernest Maltravers (English) • Eugene Aram (English) • Falkland (English) • Godolphin (English)…

Apuleius

(c.124-c.170) Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis Works: • Amor ja Psyke (Finnish) • Apologia sive pro se de magia (Latin) • De deo Socratis (Latin) • De mundo (Latin) • De Platone et eius dogmate, Liber I (Latin) • De Platone et…

Jean Cocteau

(1889–1963) Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau The artist’s works: Festival de musique de Menton 1956 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland La Tour 1959 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Orphée 1960 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Works: • La Danse de Sophocle (French) •…

William Morris

(1834–1896) The artist’s works: La Belle Iseult 1858 Tate Britain, London Peacock 1878 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Peacock and Dragon 1878 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Strawberry Thief 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1896 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo…

Algernon Charles Swinburne

(1837–1909) Works: • A Century of Roundels (English) • A Channel Passage and Other Poems (English) • A Dark Month (English) • A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems (English) • A Study of Shakespeare (English) • Astrophel and Other Poems…

G.K. Chesterton

(1874–1936) Gilbert Keith Chesterton Works: • A Chesterton Calendar (English) • A Miscellany of Men (English) • A Short History of England (English) • Alarms and Discursions (English) • All Things Considered (English) • Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works…

Gustave Geffroy

(1855–1926) Geffroy in Art: Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait du critique Gustave Geffroy c.1890 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Gustave Geffroy 1895–1896 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Nadar (1820-1910) Gustave Geffroy c.1880 New York Public Library, New York   Born June…

D.H. Lawrence

(1885–1930) David Herbert Lawrence Works: • Aaron’s Rod (English) • Amores: Poems (English) • Bay: A Book of Poems (English) • Birds, Beasts and Flowers (English) • England, My England (English) • Fantasia of the Unconscious (English) • Kangaroo (English)…

William De Morgan

(1839–1917) William Frend De Morgan The artist’s works: Crucifixion 1865 National Museum Wales, Cardiff Charger with Cupid and Pre-Raphaelite Figure c.1885 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Dish c.1885 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Vase c.1885 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Vase c.1890–1900 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago…