100 Writers

The National Portrait Gallery, London, holdsa largecollection of portraits featuringsitters who have played an important role in British history and culture across the periods, manyof whichhave also made significant contributions as writers. Featured writers include:Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, William Shakespeare, George Eliot, Zadie Smith, Oscar Wilde,John Ruskin,Monica Ali, Stephen Hawking, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Syliva Plath, Harold Pinter, Jean Rhys, Kazuo Ishiguro, Roald Dahl,Stuart Hall, Carol Ann Duffy, Malala Yousafzai, Charles Darwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Bront¿nd Samuel Pepy.