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Baptized February 8, 1612 • England
Died September 25, 1680 • London • England
Notable Works “Hudibras”
Peacock, oil painting by H. Wallis, 1858; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Love Peacock
English author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
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 poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
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
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Anna Seward
English poet, literary critic, and intellectual
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Butler
English author [1835-1902]
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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