Victorian Novel Lover Mugs

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Pirate

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

The Epsom Derby - The Finishing Line

Tilly Slowboy

'Choose, Fenster

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

William Makepeace Thackeray.

"It's a novel about interest rates."

Barry Unsworth

Foxy lady

Lord Byron

Disraeli becomes Earl of Beaconsfield

"I'm taking you off sleeping pills and putting you on Proust."

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

The old fashioned, never say die author: 'All right, if they're remaindered, I'll sign the remainders.'

Book

'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

John Stuart Mill

Sylvia Plath

Victorian Pub Scene

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

"It's a stream of consciousness novel like 'Ulysses' I just sort of sat down and wrote it without even thinking of a plot have you had drink I', going to get a seat where do you come from it's hot in here I like blue do you like blue..."

Remounts for the Yeomanry

Ernest Hemingway

Trilby - The flexible flageolet

George Eliot

Antique Selfie

Johnny and Moloch

Abstraction and recognition

Nicholas recognises the young lady unknown

Buy the Book - Denounce the Author.