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William Holman Hunt (1827-1910),
The Awakening Conscience (1853)
The Trustees of Sir Colin and
Lady Anderson 



The Pre-Raphaelites frequently discussed modern-life subjects, 

but Hunt was the first to tackle the theme of the kept woman, 

who has been stricken with conscience as she sits on her lover's knee 

at the piano, in their newly-furnished love-nest.  To the theme of 

the damsel in distress, Hunt has brought his own intense symbolism 

of objects, almost every one of which adds detail to the story.  

Even the frame is carved with marigolds and bells, symbols of 

sorrow and warning.  In order to lend religious seriousness 

to such a risque subject, Hunt exhibited the picture 

with two religious quotations, and inscribed a third in the frame.  

This did not prevent most critics, except Ruskin, from attacking it 

as 'drawn from a very dark and repulsive side of domestic life'. 

(Athenaeum)
















    

  1. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)


  2. Thomas Chatterton(1752-1800)

  3. Fanny [Frances] Burney (1752-1840)


  4. George Ellis (1753-1815)

  5. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)

  6. William Drennan (1754-1820)

  7. George Crabbe (1754-1832)

  8. William Godwin (1756-1836)


  9. William Blake (1757-1827)


  10. Harriet Lee (1757-1851)

  11. Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)

  12. Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816)

  13. Robert Burns (1759-96)


  14. Mary Godwin (nee Wollstonecraft) (1759-97)


  15. George Colman (1762-1836)


  16. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)

  17. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)


  18. William Cobbett [Peter Porcupine] (1763-1835)


  19. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)

  20. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)


  21. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)


  22. John Hookham Frere (1769-1846)

  23. Amelia Opie (1769-1853)

  24. George Canning (1770-1827)

  25. James Hogg (1770-1835)

  26. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)


  27. Walter Scott (1771-1832)


  28. Robert Owen (1771-1858)


  29. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)


  30. Pierce Egan (1772-1849)

  31. Mary Frampson (1773-1846)

  32. Robert Southey (1774-1843)


  33. Thomas Dermody (1775-1802)

  34. Jane Austen (1775-1817)


  35. Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)

  36. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)


  37. Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841) 

  38. JWalter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

  39. Jane Porter (1776-1850)

  40. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

  41. William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

  42. John Galt (1779-1839)

  43. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

  44. Anna Maria Porter (1780-1832)

  45. James Morier (1780-1849)

  46. Sydney Owenson [Lady Morgan] (1780-1859)

  47. Frances Trollope (1780-1863)


  48. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)

  49. Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)

  50. Robert Eyres Landor (1781-1869)

  51. Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824)

  52. Charles Maclaren (1782-1866)

  53. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)

  54. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)


  55. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)

  56. Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)


  57. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)


  58. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)


  59. Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)

  60. Robert Peel (1788-1950)


  61. William Moore (1790-1851)

  62. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)

  63. Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

  64. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)


  65. Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)

  66. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

  67. John Clare (1793-1864)


  68. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)

  69. William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) 

  70. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865)

  71. William Carleton (1794-1869)

  72. Mary Elliott (1794-1870)

  73. John Keats (1795-1821)


  74. George Darley (1795-1846)

  75. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)


  76. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865)

  77. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)


  78. Samuel Lover (1797-1868)

  79. Emily Eden (1797-1869)


  80. Richard Cobbold (1797-1877)

  81. Herbert Knowles (1798-1817)

  82. James Henry (1798-1876)

  83. Thomas Hood (1799-1845)


  84. John Moultrie (1799-1874) 

  85. Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800-33)

  86. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59)

  87. Robert Bell (1800-67)

  88. Charles Jeremiah Wells (1800?-79)

  89. Anna Maria Hall (1800-81)

  90. Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-82)

  91. Henry Taylor (1800-86) 

  92. Edward Moxon (1801-58) 

  93. Caroline Clive (1801-73)

  94. William Barnes (1801-86)

  95. John Henry Newman (1801-90) 


  96. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-39)

  97. Favell Lee Mortimer (1802-78)

  98. Thomas Lovett Beddoes (1803-47) 

  99. James Clarence Mangan (1803-49)

  100. Douglas William Jerrold (1803-57)

  101. Robert Smith Surtees (1803-64)

  102. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73)


  103. Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75)

  104. George Henry Borrow (1803-81)


  105. Richard Henry Horne (1803-84)

  106. Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804-45) 

  107. Benjamine Disraeli (1804-81)


  108. William Gilbert (1804-89)

  109. R. E. Egerton Warburton (1804-91)

  110. Thomas Wade (1805-75) 

  111. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82)

  112. John Sterling (1806-44)

  113. Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1806-55) 

  114. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61)


  115. Charles James Lever (1806-72)

  116. John Stuart Mill (1806-73)


  117. Samuel Warren (1807-1877)

  118. Frederick Tennyson (1807-98)

  119. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808-77) 


  120. Caroline Norton (1808-77)


  121. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-79) 

  122. Henry Cole (1808-82)

  123. Pauline Craven (1808-91) 

  124. John Hanmer (1809-81) 

  125. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82)
 
  126. Mark Lemon (1809-70)

  127. Edward FitzGerald (1809-82)

  128. Moncton Milnes (1809-85)  

  129. Fanny Kemble (1809-93) 

  130. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92)


  131. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) 

  132. Egerton Webbe (1810-40) 

  133. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65)


  134. Henry Alford (1810-71) 

  135. William Miller (1810-72)

  136. John Muir (1810-82)

  137. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)


  138. Henry Ellison (1811-80) 

  139. William Bell Scott (1811-90)

  140. John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)

  141. Charles Dickens (1812-70)


  142. Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1812-80)

  143. Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton (1812-85)

  144. Henry Mayhew (1812-87)


  145. Edward Lear (1812-88)


  146. Robert Browning (1812-89)


  147. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)


  148. Frederick William Faber (1814-63) 

  149. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73)

  150. William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-80)

  151. Charles Reade (1814-84)

  152. Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814-1902)

  153. Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-45)

  154. Ellen Wood [Mrs Henry] (1814-87)

  155. Anthony Trollope (1815-82)


  156. Grace Aguilar (1816-47)

  157. Brontë Sisters
     [Charlotte (1816-55)] [Emily (1818-48)] [Anne (1820-49)]


  158. Shieley Brooks (1816-1874)

  159. Thomas Burbidge (1816-92) 

  160. P. J. Bailey (1816-1902) 

  161. Theodore Martin (1816-1909)

  162. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)

  163. James Anthony Froude (1818-94)

  164. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)


  165. Ernest Jones (1819-69)

  166. Charles Kingsley (1819-75)


  167. George Eliot (1819-80)


  168. John Ruskin (1819-1900)


  169. Ebenezer Jones (1820-60)

  170. Jean Ingelow (1820-97)

  171. Frederick Temple (1820-1902)

  172. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

  173. Angus Bethune Reach (1821-56)

  174. Lucie Duff-Gordon (1821-69)

  175. Isabella Varley Banks (1821-72)


  176. Dora Greenwell (1821-82)

  177. Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821-88)

  178. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95)

  179. George Linnaeus Banks (1821-97)

  180. Matthew Arnold (1822-88)


  181. Dion Boucicault [Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot] (1822-90)


  182. Thomas Hughes (1822-96)

  183. William Cory (1823-92)

  184. Coventry Patmore (1823-96)


  185. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)


  186. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-74)

  187. William Allingham (1824-1889)

  188. Wilkie Collins (1824-89)


  189. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-97)

  190. George MacDonald (1824-1905)


  191. Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908)

  192. R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894)

  193. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95)


  194. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)

  195. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64)

  196. Robert Ferguson (fl.1826-47) 

  197. Walter Bagehot (1826-77)


  198. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-87) 


  199. William Alexander (1826-1894)

  200. Jane Francisca Wilde (1826-1896)

  201. James Hannay (1827-73)

  202. Mortimer Collins (1827-76)

  203. George Henry Kingsley (1827-92)

  204. Alexander Gilchrist (1828-1861) 

  205. J. Stanyan Bigg (1828-65)

  206. Charles Allstone Collins (1828-73)

  207. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)


  208. Anne Burrows Gilchrist (1828-1885)

  209. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97)


  210. Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828-1896)

  211. Josephine Elizabeth Butler (1828-1906)

  212. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)

  213. George Meredith (1828-1909)


  214. Arthur Munby (1828-1910)

  215. Thomas William Robertson (1829-71)

  216. Edward Dutton Cook (1829-83)

  217. Catherine Mumford Booth (1829-90)

  218. William Booth (1829-1912) 

  219. Henry Kingsley (1830-76)

  220. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-94)


  221. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-97)

  222. Sebastian Evans (1830-1909)

  223. Justin M'Carthy (1830-1912)

  224. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-84)

  225. Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831-92)

  226. Isabella Lucy Bishop (neé Bird) (1831-1904)


  227. Helen Taylor (1831-1907)

  228. William Hale White [Mark Rutherford]  (1831-1913)


  229. Theodore Watts Dunton (1832-1914) 

  230. Lewis Carroll (1832-98)


  231. Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903)

  232. Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)


  233. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914)

  234. Charles George Gordon (1833-85)

  235. Charles Bradlaugh (1833-91) 

  236. John Nichol (1833-94)

  237. Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900)

  238. Elizabeth Siddal (1834-62)

  239. James Thomson (1834-82)

  240. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92)


  241. William Morris (1834-96)


  242. Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903)

  243. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)

  244. Emily Faithfull (1835-95)


  245. John Byrne Leicester Warren (1835-95)

  246. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)


  247. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)


  248. Isabella Mary Beeton (1836-65)

  249. Thomas Hill Green (1836-82)

  250. Thomas Ashe (1836-89)

  251. Walter Besant (1836-1901)


  252. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)


  253. Augusta Webster (1837-1894) 

  254. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)


  255. John Richard Green (1837-83)

  256. Herbert Harrington Roberts (1837-1920) 

  257. David Gray (1838-61)

  258. Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (1838-1903)

  259. Henry Irving (1838-1905)

  260. Alfred Comyns Lyall (1838-1911)

  261. Edwin Abbott (1838-1926)

  262. George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928)

  263. Walter Pater (1839-94)


  264. Marie Louise de la Ramee (aka Ouida, 1839-1908)

  265. Mary Ellen Edwards� [Mrs Staples] (1839-c.1910)

  266. John Addington Symonds (1840-93)


  267. Cosmo Monkhouse (1840-1901)

  268. Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920)

  269. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)

  270. Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) 

  271. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)


  272. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)

  273. George Augustus Simcox (1841-1905)

  274. Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921)


  275. William Henry Hudson (1841-1922)


  276. William John Courthope (1842-1917)

  277. Charlotte Mason (1842-1923)

  278. James Rice (1843-82)

  279. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)

  280. Henry James (1843-1916)


  281. Charles Montagu Doughty (1843-1926)

  282. George Heath (1844-1869)

  283. Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-81)

  284. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89)


  285. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)


  286. Ada Cambridge (1844-1926)

  287. Robert Bridges (1844-1930) 

  288. Louisa Sarah (Guggenberger) Bevington (1845-1895) 

  289. Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907)

  290. William Canton (1845-1926)

  291. Louisa S. Bevington (1845-?)

  292. Mathilde Blind (1846-96)


  293. Machael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley, 1846-1914; Edith Emma Cooper, 1862-1913)

  294. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1845-1933)

  295. James Logie Robertson (Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922)

  296. Hugh Conway (1847-85)

  297. Bram Abraham Stoker (1847-1912)


  298. Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (1847-1922) 

  299. George R. Sims (1847-1922)

  300. Flora Anne Steel (1847-1929)

  301. Annie Besant (1847-1933)


  302. Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848-67)

  303. Richard Jefferies (1848-87)

  304. Aubrey Lackington Moore (1848-90)

  305. Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848-99)


  306. Sydney Grundy (1848-1914)

  307. Christina Fraser-Tytler (1848-1927)

  308. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

  309. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1903)

  310. Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849-1907)

  311. William Hurrel Mallock (1849-1923)

  312. Philip Bourke Marston (1850-87)

  313. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)


  314. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)


  315. John Watson (1850-1907)

  316. Mary Augusta Arnold Ward [Mrs. Humphry Ward] (1851-1920)

  317. Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929)

  318. Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851-1935)

  319. Ella Darcy (1851-?1937)

  320. Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852-1931)

  321. Edmund James Banfield (1852-1923)

  322. Isabella Augusta Gregory (1852-1932)

  323. George Augustus Moore (1852-1933)


  324. Lucy Clifford (1853-1929)

  325. Charles Harold Herford (1853-1931)

  326. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


  327. James George Frazer (1854-1941)


  328. Oliver Madox Brown (1855-74)

  329. Fiona Macleod [William Sharp] (1855-1905)

  330. William Paton Ker (1855-1923)

  331. Florence Henniker (1855-1923)

  332. Marie Corelli [Mary Mackay] (1855-1924)


  333. Arthur Bingham Walkley (1855-1926)

  334. Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)


  335. Joseph Hocking (1855-1937)

  336. Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)


  337. William Archer (1856-1934)

  338. Thomas Anstey Guthrie [F. Anstey] (1856-1934)

  339. Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] (1856-1935) 


  340. Margaret Louisa Woods (1856-1945)

  341. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


  342. George Gissing (1857-1903)


  343. John Davidson (1857-1909)

  344. Nathaniel Gould (1857-1919)

  345. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 


  346. William Pett Ridge (1857-1930)

  347. Morley Roberts (1857-1942)

  348. A. Mary F. Robinson (1857-1944)

  349. Dollie Radford (1858-1920)

  350. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)


  351. John Meade Falkner (1858-1932)

i>William Watson (1858-1935)

  352. Dollie Radford (1858-1920)

  353. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-92)

  354. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)

  355. Sydney Lee (1859-1926)

  356. Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1928) 


  357. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)


  358. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

  359. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

  360. Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)


  361. Alfred William Pollard (1859-1944)

  362. George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Bright] (1859-1945)

  363. Frederic William Rolfe [Baron Corvo] (1860-1913)

  364. John Evelyn Barlas (1860-1914)

  365. Ellen T. Fowler [Mrs. A. L. Felkin] (1860-1929)

  366. James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)


  367. George Egerton (1860-1945)

  368. William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)


  369. Amy Levy (1861-1889)


  370. Henry Harland (1861-1905)

  371. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

  372. E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)

  373. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)

  374. Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)

  375. Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923)

  376. Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-1931)


  377. Oliver Elton (1861-1945)

  378. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)


  379. Henry Seton Merriman (1862-1903)

  380. Violet Florence Martin [Martin Ross] (1862-1915)

  381. Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)

  382. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932)

  383. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936)

  384. Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938)

  385. Sarah Grand (1862-1943)

  386. Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960)

  387. Victor Plarr (1863-1929)

  388. Neil Munro (1863-1930)

  389. Alfred Sutro (1863-1933)

  390. Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933)

  391. William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943)

  392. Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)

  393. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945)


  394. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)

  395. Arthur Machen (1863-1947)


  396. Mary Angela Dickens (1863-1948)

  397. Stephen Phillis (1864-1915)

  398. Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)

  399. A. St John Adcock (1864-1930)

  400. Leonard Merrick (1864-1939)

  401. Laurence Alima-Tadema (1864-1940)

  402. Hubert Crackanthorpe (1865-96)

  403. Laurence Hoep (1865-1904)

  404. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)


  405. Arthur Symons (1865-1945)


  406. May Sinclair (1865-1946)

  407. Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947)


  408. Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948)

  409. James Owen Hannay (1865-1950)

  410. Laurence Houseman (1865-1959)

















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