Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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May 14
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1925 Henry Rider Haggard, the English writer died. He wrote adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and was a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His novels include 'She' and 'King Solomon's Mines'.
In 1925 Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" was published by The Hogarth Press.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own, with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
HAGGARD (Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, Author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’)
Exceptional portrait photo by Langfier, boldly signed and dated showing him head and shoulders, full face, 8” x 6”, no place, 24th June 1919
30997
WOOLF ON MRS DALLOWAY
WOOLF (Virginia, 1882-1941, Novelist, Critic & Essayist)
Excellent Autograph Letter Signed to Mlle Monteil a French writer who had written a sympathetic critical analysis of Mrs. Dalloway, she starts by saying that she well remembers meeting her last winter and goes on to thank her “for your very generous and what is better, highly intelligent study of Mrs. Dalloway. I am very grateful to you for the care and skill which you have spent on my work - it seems to me one of the subtlest & most interesting studies of it that I have read. No doubt you have praised it too highly - of that an author cannot judge -but to be praised for the qualities one had wished to possess is a great pleasure & a rare one. I am particularly interested that a French critic should be so sympathetic; my faults are those, I should have said, that your race most abominates ...”, 1 side 4to., 52 Tavistock Square, 14th July 1930
37165
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