M.LaFlaur: Dante
M.LaFlaur: Boccaccio
M.LaFlaur: Chaucer, from the Ellesmere MS
M.LaFlaur: Chaucer, from Hoccleve MS
M.LaFlaur: Chaucer manuscript: “Balade to Rosemounde”
M.LaFlaur: Geoffrey Chaucer (17th century portrait)
M.LaFlaur: William Shakespeare
M.LaFlaur: Thomas Jefferson, 1800
M.LaFlaur: Jane Austen, from a drawing by her sister Cassandra
M.LaFlaur: John Keats, 1819
M.LaFlaur: Young Frederick Douglass
M.LaFlaur: Frederick Douglass
M.LaFlaur: Charles Dickens
M.LaFlaur: Charles Dickens
M.LaFlaur: David Copperfield
M.LaFlaur: Charles Dickens
M.LaFlaur: Herman Melville
M.LaFlaur: Mark Twain, 1867
M.LaFlaur: Mark Twain, 1871
M.LaFlaur: Stephen Crane, 1890s
M.LaFlaur: Gelett Burgess, Russian Hill, San Francisco, circa 1895
M.LaFlaur: Gilbert Murray (1866–1957)
M.LaFlaur: William Butler Yeats
M.LaFlaur: Theodore Dreiser
M.LaFlaur: Virginia Woolf, 1902 (age 20)
M.LaFlaur: James Joyce, Dublin, 1904
M.LaFlaur: James Joyce
M.LaFlaur: James Joyce
M.LaFlaur: “exhausting myself with trifles”
M.LaFlaur: Sir Ernest Barker, 1939