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Born December 12, 1742 • England
Died March 25, 1809 (aged 66) • Lichfield • England
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Portrait of Emily Bronte in profile, with curly dark hair, wearing a green dress with a white ruffled collar, from a painting by Branwell Bronte.
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet
Siegfried Sassoon, wearing a British army uniform and cap, looks directly at the camera in this 1915 black-and-white portrait.
Siegfried Sassoon
British writer
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Samuel Butler
English author [1612–1680]
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Robert Graves
British writer
Portrait of dramatist Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
English author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë
English poet and novelist
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Helen Maria Williams
English writer
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F.R. Leavis
British critic

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