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James Boswell

Scottish biographer

William Hazlitt

British writer

Christopher Hitchens

British American author and critic

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Frances Burney

British author

Tina Brown

English American magazine editor

Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

Thomas Creevey

English politician

Evelyn Waugh

English author

Sir Harold Nicolson

British diplomat and author

Simon Gray

British dramatist

Elizabeth Mavor

British author

Sir Desmond MacCarthy

English journalist

George Grossmith

British comedian

Henry Crabb Robinson

British diarist

Saint John Ervine

British dramatist

Bruce Frederick Cummings

British author

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

John Evelyn

English author

Fanny Kemble

British actress