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Born November 8, 1710 • England
Died April 9, 1768 (aged 57) • Bath • England
Notable Works “The Adventures of David Simple”
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Robert Graves
British writer
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
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Dorothy L. Sayers
British writer
Mark Rutherford, drawing by A. Ford Hughes, late 19th century
Mark Rutherford
British author
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Canadian poet
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
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Ahmed Ali
Pakistani writer
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Michael Frayn
British author and translator
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Andrew Lang
British scholar
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Arthur Machen
Welsh writer
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Rex Warner
British writer
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E.R. Eddison
British 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
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
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