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Born September 29, 1760 • London • England
Died May 2, 1844 (aged 83) • Bath • England
Notable Works “Vathek”
Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell, showing her seated with a slight smile, wearing a dark off-the-shoulder dress against a muted background.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
Novelist Matthew Gregory Lewis, author of The Monk (1796)
Matthew Gregory Lewis
English writer
Walpole, Horace
Horace Walpole
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
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
Portrait of Jane Austen seated, wearing a light blue dress and bonnet, holding a closed book on her lap with a thoughtful expression.
Jane Austen
English novelist
George Orwell, c. 1940
George Orwell
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
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
British author
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]
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
British author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist