Shoulders Roles Collection

Iris Murdoch
Anglo-Irish prize winning novelist, playwright and philosopher, Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999). (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Polish Born British Novelist Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was born J├│zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, to Polish parents in Berdichev (now Berdychiv), Ukraine, and was raised and educated primarily in Poland

Emily Bronte
An oil painting of Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848), authoress of the novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mao Tse-tung
A portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung taken during the 1969 North Chinese Communist party Congress. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

W Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), English author and master of short stories. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884) the Austrian priest, biologist and botanist whose work laid the foundation of the study of genetics. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Barbara Cartland
Mrs A G McCorquodale (1901 - 2000) who is designing all the costumes for and also producing the Pageant of the Superstitions for a Halloween Ball at the Park Lane Hotel in aid of the Townswomens

James Joyce
Irish writer James Joyce (1882 - 1941) in Zurich. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Washington Irving
American writer Washington Iriving (1783 - 1859), who also worked under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. Whilst in England from 1815 to 1822, he wrote The Sketch Book

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), American author, poet and short story writer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809 - 1849 ) the novelist and poet from a daguerreotype taken in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Roosevelt Portrait
American politician Theodore Roosevelt, (1858 - 1919), 26th President of the United States of America. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Virginia Woolf
English novelist, critic and essayist Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was born in London and regarded as one of the great modern innovators of the novel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jack London
The popular American writer, Jack London (1876 - 1916) who was successively sailor, tramp and gold miner before he took to writing. His Call of the Wild and White Fang have become classics

Ralph Emerson
American philosopher, poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jules Verne
French writer Jules Verne (1828 - 1905). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Walt Whitman
US poet and author Walt Whitman (1819 - 1891). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

English authoress Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Commissioned by her publisher, George Smith, this portrait of the novelist from Richmond was a gift for her father, who saw in it strong indications of the genius of the author

William Morris
English poet, artist and craftsman William Morris (1834 - 1896). Original Artwork: Woodbury Type (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Charles Darwin
British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882). Original Artwork: Woodbury type by Lock & Whitfield. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

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