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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Pictures Phillis Wheatley
Pictures Portraits of Wilfred Owen Félicia Laude
Pictures Kouni gnani yli yégé Nadia Ogou
Pictures Le masque forestier Mathilde Blondeel
Pictures Bennet family at home (image) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Pride and Prejudice title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Steventon Rectory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Jane Austen's House in Chawton Rudi Riet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustration from "One Thousand and One Nights" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Frontispiece of Burton's Arabian Nights, volume 1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Arabian nights manuscript https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustration from Thousand Nights and a Night https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustration from Thousand Nights and a Night https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Satan in 'Paradise Lost', by Doré https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Vauxhall Gardens by Thomas Rowlandson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Carpet Merchant of Cairo - Jean-Léon Gérôme https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Governer of Uganda and the Omukama of Toro https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Pictures The Rhodes Colossus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Manuscript of 'A route of evanescense' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Emily Dickinson Poems Book Cover https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Jerusalem https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Little Boy lost https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Ghost of a Flea https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Ezra Pound Passport https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Letter from W B Yeats to Ezra Pound https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Cathay title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Ezra Pound 1945 'mug shot' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Wilfred Owen Grave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Southerne Oroonoko 1776 Performance https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Life of Martin Luther https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Valley of Ashes https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F Scott Fitzgerald Signature https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Grave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F. Scott Fitzgerald circa 1920 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Tales of the Jazz Age https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Imperial Federation, map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Spanish Tragedy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Rhodes Colossus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Imperial Federation, map of the world showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures 1855 Colton Map of the West Indies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Evening Post map of the West Indies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures William Blake https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Katherine Mansfield https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures David Garrick - Between Tragedy and Comedy (image) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The age of brass. or the triumphs of Woman's rights https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustrated Book Cover for 'The Jungle Book' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Photograph of Rudyard Kipling https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Photograph of Joseph Conrad in 1916 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Black and White Portrait Photograph of Joseph Conrad https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page