Charles Langbridge Morgan
(1894-1958), Novelist and dramatistSitter in 33 portraits
Entered the Royal Navy in 1907, but resigned to pursue a literary career, a plan that was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. He spent most of the war interned in Antwerp, where he wrote his first novel, The Gunroom (1919), recounting his experiences as a young midshipman in the pre-war Royal Navy. After the war, he joined the editorial staff of The Times, serving as principal theatre critic from 1926. In 1929, he published the novel Portrait in a Mirror, followed in 1932 by The Fountain. During World War II, he worked for naval intelligence, and afterwards continued to produce novels and plays. His work was most successful in the 1930s and is little known today.
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1934
NPG Ax3504
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1934
NPG Ax136100
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 1 June 1939
NPG x27034
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 1 June 1939
NPG x27035
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1 June 1939
NPG x83792
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 26 November 1948
NPG x169549
Charles Langbridge Morgan; Hilda Morgan (née Vaughan)
by Yevonde
bromide print, 1950s
NPG x26398
'A Portrait in the Mirror' (Charles Langbridge Morgan)
by Yevonde
bromide print on card mount, 1950s
NPG x26397
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1952
NPG x30010
by Mark Gerson
print, February 1954
NPG x11901
by Howard Coster
print, 1955
NPG x10671
after Unknown artist
colour offset lithographic cigarette card, 1937
NPG D42410
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