CHARLES DICKENS- CDV. Carte de visite photograph.(4"x 2 1/2"). Standing view of Dickens. Rockwood, (NY) photographer's imprint. Very good clarity and condition. (LA.04) $150. SOLD

CHARLES DICKENS- CDV. Carte de visite photograph.(4"x 2 1/2"). No photographer's imprint (though from the 1867 Gurney sitting). Mount trimmed and corners rounded,o/w vg condition. (LA.27) $125. 

A.C. SWINBURNE-CDV. Carte de visite photograph. (4"x 2 1/2") Bust view of the author.Elliott & Fry, London backmark.  Facsimile autograph on mount . F. cond (LA.03).  $85.
Algernon Charles Swinburne  (1837-1909). Into the midst of staid Victorian England burst a young man with new ideas and new poems. His ideas defied the conventions of his time, but his poems contained a wealth of language and enchanting melodies.

GEORGE MACDONALD - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2") Bust profile view . Facsimile autograph on mount. Sarony, N.Y. imprint   Great clarity and contrast, F. cond (LA.05) $125.
George Macdonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist and poet, studied for ministry; wrote chiefly of Scotland and its people, and best remembered for allegorical fairy tales  (“At the Back of the North Wind”).  

CHARLES KINGSLEY - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2") Waist up view. Warren's, Boston imprint.  Strong clarity and contrast, F. cond (LA.09). $95.
Charles Kingsley (1819-75). In his own lifetime the clergyman Charles Kingsley was known chiefly as a social reformer. Today he is beloved by children for his delightful fairy story 'The Water-Babies.

ALFRED TENNYSON - CDV. Carte de visite photograph.(4"x 2 1 /2"). Waist up view of the poet. London Stereoscopic Co., London backmark. View from life, G. (LA.06) $65.
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92). In the last half of the 19th century Alfred Tennyson was considered England's greatest poet. Tennyson was named poet laureate in 1850. In 1883 Tennyson reluctantly accepted a barony offered by Prime Minister William Gladstone, and he assumed the title lord. He was the first English writer to win so high a title for his work alone.

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. He also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical conflicts of his day.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2") Waist up view. Sarony, N.Y. imprint.  Strong clarity and contrast, F. cond (LA.12) $90.
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878). He The beauties of New England's hills and forests were sung by Bryant. 'Thanatopsis' (1817) and 'A Forest Hymn' (1825) shows a reverence for nature.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) began his career as a clergyman. He came to feel, however, that he could better do his work outside the church. Thus he became an independent essayist and lecturer, a lay preacher to Americans. He preached one message--that the individual human being, because he is God's creature, has a spark of divinity in him which gives him great power.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph. (4 1/4"x 2 1 /2"). Warren's, Boston backmark. Fine condition, clarity and contrast. (LA.20) $120.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). Although his friends included a number of noted transcendentalists--such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott--Nathaniel Hawthorne's works show little of the optimism and self-confidence that marked transcendentalism. Instead, he preferred themes drawn more from a Puritan preoccupation with guilt and the natural depravity of humans. 

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2") Waist up view. No imprint. Image to edges of mount (trimmed from a larger cabinet card?)  Strong clarity and contrast, VG cond (LA.11) $120.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82). Was the favorite American poet in the 19th century was He was a storyteller in verse. 'The Courtship of Miles Standish' (1858), 'Evangeline' (1847), and 'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) use native incident and character. Longfellow was trying to give the United States legends like those of Europe. 

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2"). Warren's, Boston backmark. Fine condition, clarity and contrast. (LA.25) $75.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), Nearly as popular as Longfellow, Whittier was the author of such well-known ballads as 'Barbara Frietchie' (1863). Whittier was a Quaker and thus a foe of slavery, which he attacked in both verse and prose.

Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909), American writer and clergyman, born in Boston, and educated at Harvard University. . Hale is known for his abolitionist sympathies during the period immediately preceding the American Civil War; his best-known work, the patriotic short story “The Man Without a Country” (1863), is believed to have encouraged supporters of the Union cause. Hale wrote almost 70 books, including the novels Ten Times One Is Ten (1870), which led to the formation of many charitable organizations, and If Jesus Came to Boston (1894), an attempt, in fiction, to reconcile religion with rapidly changing social conditions. From 1903 until his death he served as chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

JAMES BAYARD TAYLOR - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/8"x 2 1 /2"). Mora's, N.Y. imprint. Fine condition, clarity and contrast. (LA.29) $85.
James Bayard Taylor (1825-78), U.S. translator, traveler, and poet, born in Kennett Square, Pa.; ('Poems of Home and Travel'; 'Views Afoot'; translation of 'Faust)

JOHN SAXE - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2"). Sarony, N.Y. imprint. Fine condition, clarity and contrast. (LA.16) $65.
John Saxe(1816-87). American poet, best known for his humorous verse.

JAMES THOMAS FIELDS - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2"). Warren's, Boston photographer's backmark. Fine condition. (LA.34) $90.
James Thomas Fields  (1817-81), U.S. publisher, author, and lecturer, born in Portsmouth, N.H.; editor of Atlantic Monthly, 1862-70 ('Underbrush'; 'Yesterdays with Authors').

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL - CDV.  Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2"). Sarony, N.Y.  imprint. Pencil id on mount, o/w VG+ condition. (LA.18) $85.
 James Russell Lowell (1819-91)  This wellborn Bostonian was versatile. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, a professor at Harvard, United States minister to Spain and then to England, a literary critic, and a poet. 

BENSON LOSSING- SIGNED CDV. Carte de visite, 4" x 2 1/2" view of Benson Lossing, with pen inscription on back " To Mrs. C.C. Lawler (?) with the compliments of her friend Benson Lossing  March 1864".   Gullman, Pourgheepsie, NY photographer's imprint.Very minor surface scratch in image (along the tie area), corners clipped, o/w fine. ( La. 021); $300.
Benson John Lossing (1813-1891) was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War and features in Harper's Magazine. He was a Charter Trustee of Vassar College.

George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker. In 1863 he became the political editor of Harper's Weekly, which was highly influential in shaping public opinion.

Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and government official,

William Howard Russell (28 March 1820 - 11 February 1907) was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.In 1861 Russell went to Washington. In July 1865 Russell sailed on the Great Eastern to document the laying of the Atlantic Cable, and wrote a book about the voyage

Louis John Jennings (12 May 1836 - 9 February 1893) was an English journalist and Conservative politician. He joined The Times (London) newspaper and between 1863 and 1868 was their special correspondent in India and the USA. He then joined the New York Times of which he became editor. As editor he was responsible for the exposure of the Tweed Ring

Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) was a politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.He was the longtime editor of the New York Tribune and close friend of Horace Greeley. He was a leader of the Liberal Republican movement in 1872.

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1 September 1795 – 1 June 1872) was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers.