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Born September 21, 1722 • Leith • Scotland
Died September 5, 1808 (aged 85) • Scotland
Role In Scottish Enlightenment
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
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Ewan MacColl
British musician and author
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
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Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
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James Bridie
Scottish playwright
Josephine Tey, 1934
Josephine Tey
Scottish author
Joanna Baillie, engraving by H. Robinson after a portrait by Sir William Newton
Joanna Baillie
British author
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
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T. H. White
British writer
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George Blake
British writer
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin
Scottish author
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James Thomson
Scottish poet [1700–1748]
John Davidson, crayon drawing by Walter Sickert; in the British Museum
John Davidson
Scottish poet
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Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
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Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist