William Faulkner on horseback
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa in class
Arthur Conan Doyle and women
Robert Louis Stevenson among criminals
Ivan Turgenev in his sadness
Thomas Mann in his suffering
Rainer Maria Rilke in waiting
Malcolm Lowry beset by calamaity
Madame Du Defand and the idiots
Rudyard Kipling without jokes
Laurence Sterne at the end / Fugitive women: Lady Hester Stanhope, the queen of the desert
Vernon Lee, the tiger-cat
Adah Isaacs Menken, the equestrian poetess
Violet Hunt, the improper person of Babylon
Julie De Lespinasse, the amorous mistress
Emily Brontë, the silent major / Perfect artists.
