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Born March 17, 1820 • Boston • England
Died July 20, 1897 (aged 77) • London • England
Notable Works “The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
The man who invented Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
English author
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
British author
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D.J. Enright
British poet
Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake
English novelist
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author
Okara, Gabriel
Gabriel Okara
Nigerian author
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian writer
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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Richard Hughes
British writer
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Solomon M. Mutswairo
Zimbabwean author
Charlotte Smith, engraving by A. Duncan after a portrait by G. Clint
Charlotte Smith
English writer
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
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Henry Treece
English author
George Macdonald, engraving
George Macdonald
British author
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

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