Frances Mary Buss was a British headmistress and a pioneer of girls' education.
Buss, c. 1882
Frances Mary Buss and Sophie Bryant
Robert William Buss was a Victorian artist, etcher and illustrator perhaps best known for his painting Dickens' Dream. He was the father of Frances Buss, a pioneer of girls' education.
Buss, c. 1874
Illustration for The Pickwick Papers (1837)
Samuel Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair. Fildes was illustrating "Edwin Drood" at the time of Charles Dickens' death. The wood-engraving shows Dickens' empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place. It appeared in the Christmas 1870 edition of The Graphic and thousands of examples of it were sold. Vincent van Gogh was an admirer of the print.
Dickens's Dream, 1870-75