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This list includes entries from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910.
All articles created using this source should be in Category:A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
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[edit] A
- Alexander Alesius
- Alexander Anderson
- Alexander Bain
- Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Alexander Barclay
- Alexander Campbell Fraser, Ll.D., D.C.L.
- Alexander Carlyle
- Alexander Dyce
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
- Alexander Geddes
- Alexander Gerard
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hume
- Alexander Montgomerie
- Alexander Neckham
- Alexander Pope
- Alexander Scott
- Alexander Smith
- Alexander William Kinglake
- Alexander Wilson
- Alfred Ainger
- Alfred Austin
- Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn, K.C.B., Etc.
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Alfred Hayes
- Alfred Noyes
- Alfred Perceval Graves
- Mahan, Alfred Thayer, D.C.L., Ll.D.
- Alfred William Pollard
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Alice Cary
- Alice Meynell
- Alice Werner
- Alice Whiffin Dudeney ("Mrs. Henry Dudeney")
- Allan Cunningham
- Allan Ramsay
- Allen Upward
- Ambrose Philips
- Amelia Opie
- Andrew Boorde or Borde
- Andrew Cecil Bradley L.L.D., Litt.D., Etc]]
- Andrew Cherry
- Andrew Fletcher
- Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
- Andrew Lang, D.Litt., Etc.
- Andrew Marvell
- Andrew of Wyntoun
- Andrew Picken
- Ann (Ward) Radcliffe
- Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson
- Anna Eliza Bray
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
- Anna Maria Hall
- Anna Maria Porter
- Anne Barnard
- Anne (M'vicar) Grant
- Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie ("Mrs. Richmond Ritchie")
- Anne Manning
- Anne Ross Cousin
- Annie Besant
- Annie Keary
- Annie S. Swan ("Mrs. Burnett Smith")
- Annie Thomas ("Mrs. Pender Cudlip")
- Anthony Munday
- Anthony Trollope
- Aphra Behn
- Archibald Alison
- Archibald Bower
- Arthur Balfour
- Arthur Broke or Brooke
- Arthur Christopher Benson
- Arthur Doughty
- Arthur Golding
- Arthur Henry Bullen
- Arthur Hill Hassall
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Arthur Johnston
- Arthur Morrison
- Arthur Murphy
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- Arthur Symons
- Arthur Thomas ("Q") Quiller-Couch
- Arthur Waugh
- Arthur William Edgar O'shaughnessy
- Arthur Young
- Asser
- Aubrey Thomas De Vere
- Augusta (Davies) Webster
- Augustine Birrell
- Augustus De Morgan
- Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
- Augustus Montague Toplady
- Augustus William Hare
- Sir Austin Henry Layard
[edit] B
- Barnabe Barnes
- Barnabe Googe
- Barnabe Rich
- Baroness (Montgomery) Tautphoeus
- Barrett Wendell
- Barry Pain
- Bartholomew Eliot George Warburton
- Bartholomew Griffin
- Basil Hall
- Bayard Taylor
- Beatrice Harraden
- Bede
- Ben Jonson
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Hoadley
- Benjamin Jowett
- Benjamin Kidd
- Benjamin Whichcote
- Bernard Barton
- Bernard De Mandeville
- Bernhard Berenson
- Bertram Mitford
- Blind Harry
- Brady
- Brander Matthews, James Brander, Litt.D., D.C.L., Etc.
- Browne Willis
- Bryan Waller ("Barry Cornwall") Procter
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
[edit] C
- Herford, Charles Harold, Litt.D.
- Cædmon
- Caesar Otway
- Carles Wilcox
- Nairne, Carolina (Oliphant), Baroness
- Caroline Anne (Bowles) Southey
- Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton
- Catherine (Stevens) Crowe
- Catherine Grace Frances (Moody) Gore
- Catherine (Sawbridge) Macaulay
- Catherine Maria Fanshawe
- Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
- Charles Churchill
- Charles Cotton
- Charles Cowden Clarke
- Charles Dibdin
- Charles Dickens
- Norton, Charles Eliot, Ll.D., D.C.L., Etc.
- Charles Farrar Browne
- Charles Fenno Hoffman
- Charles George Douglas Roberts
- Charles Gildon
- Charles Godfrey Leland
- Charles Grant Allen
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Charles Henry Pearson
- Charles James Fox
- Charles James Lever
- Charles Jeremiah Wells
- Charles Johnstone
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Knight
- Charles Lamb
- Charles Mackay
- Charles Macklin
- Charles Merivale
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
- Charles Montague Doughty
- Charles Neaves Lord
- Oman, Charles William Chadwick,
- Charles Raymond Beazley
- Charles Reade
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Charles Robert Maturin
- Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of
- Charles Sprague - redirect disambiguation page
- Charles Stuart Calverley
- Charles Tennyson Turner
- Charles Waterton
- Charles Wentworth Dilke
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, Bart., P.C., Ll.D., Etc.
- Charles Wesley
- Charles Whibley
- Charles Whitehead
- Charles William Shirley Brooks
- Charles Wolfe
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charlotte Lennox
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Charlotte (Turner) Smith
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
- Christabel Rose Coleridge
- Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Christopher Anstey
- Christopher Marlowe
- Christopher Smart
- Christopher Wordsworth
- Christopher Wordsworth
- Clara Reeve
- Claude Phillips
- Clement King Shorter
- Colley Cibber
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Ll.D.
- Connop Thirwall
- Constance Garnett
- Conyers Middleton
- Cosmo Innes
- Cotton Mather
- Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
- Cynewulf
[edit] D
- Daniel Defoe
- Daniel Waterland
- Daniel Webster
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- David Calderwood
- Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord
- David Garrick
- David Gray
- David Hartley
- David Hay Fleming, Ll.D.
- David Herd
- David Hume
- David Laing
- David Livingstone
- Lindsay, or Lyndsay, Sir David
- David Macbeth Moir
- Mallet, Originally Malloch, David
- David Masson
- David Patrick, Ll.D.
- David Ricardo
- David Ross (Petroleum V. Nasby) Locke
- David Wingate
- Denis Florence Maccarthy
- Dinah Maria (Craik) Mulock
- Dion Boucicault
- Dionysius Lardner
- Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- Douglas Hyde, , Ll.D
- Douglas William Jerrold
- Dr. Samuel Parr
- Dugald Stewart
[edit] E
- Budge, Ernest a. Wallis, Litt.D., Etc
- E. Nesbit
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Ebenezer Elliot
- Ebenezer Jones
- Eden Phillpotts
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith (Jones) Wharton
- Edmund Burke
- Edmund Calamy
- Edmund Garratt Gardner
- Edmund Gosse Ll.D.
- Edmund Malone
- Edmund Spenser
- Edmund Waller
- Edmund Yates
- Edward Arber
- Edward Augustus Freeman
- Edward Bannerman Ramsay
- Edward Berdoe
- Edward Bouverie Pusey
- Edward Bradley
- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Lord
- Edward Caird
- Edward Cave
- Edward Clodd
- Edward Coate Pinkney
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
- Edward Dowden Ll.D., D.C.L.
- Edward Eggleston
- Edward Fairfax
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Edward Garnett
- Edward Gibbon
- Edward Hall, or Halle
- Herbert, of Cherbury, Edward, 1st Lord
- Edward Howard
- Edward Hutton
- Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
- Edward Irving
- Edward John Trelawny
- Edward Lear
- Edward Moore
- Edward Saxby
- Edward Spencer Beesly
- Edward Stillingfleet
- Edward Thomas
- Edward Verall Lucas
- Edward William Lane
- Edward Young
- Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Edwin Atherstone
- Edwin Percy Whipple
- Edwin Waugh
- Egerton Castle
- Elias Ashmole
- Elijah Fenton
- Eliza (Fowler) Haywood
- Eliza Lynn Linton
- Elizabeth ("C.E. Raimond") Robins
- Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth Bonham ("Mrs. Henry De La Pasture")
- Elizabeth Carter
- Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson) Gaskell
- Elizabeth Eastlake (Rigby)
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ("Mrs. H.D. Ward")
- Elizabeth von Arnim
- Elkanah Settle
- Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler ("Mrs. Felkin")
- Ellen Price Wood ("Mrs. Henry Wood")
- Emily Lawless
- Emily Morse Symonds ("George Paston")
- Enoch Arnold Bennett
- Erasmus Darwin
- Erminda Rentoul Esler
- Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- Ernest Arthur Gardner
- Ernest Belfort Bax
- Ernest Charles Jones
- Ernest George Hardy, D.Litt.
- Ernest Rhys
- Ernest Thompson ("Seton Thompson") Seton
- Ernest William Hornung
- May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
- Etc.
- Etc
- Eustace Budgell
- Evelyn Everett-Green
- Eyre Evans Crowe
[edit] F
- F.W. Bourdillon
- Frances (Burney) d'Arblay
- Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans
- Fitzgreene Halleck
- Flora Annie (Webster) Steel
- Florence of Worcester
- Ford Madox Hueffer
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Frances Power Cobbe
- Frances (Milton) Trollope
- Francis Adams
- Gasquet, Right Rev. Francis Aidan, D.D.
- Francis Atterbury
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Beaumont
- Francis Bret Harte
- Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
- Francis Douce
- Francis Fawkes
- Francis Grose
- Francis Henry Underwood
- Francis Herbert Bradley
- Francis Hindes Groome
- Francis Hutcheson
- Francis J. Child
- Francis Jeffrey
- Francis Marion Crawford
- Francis Meres
- Francis Parkman
- Francis Prevost
- Francis Quarles
- Francis Richard Stockton
- Francis Rous
- Francis Sylvester Mahony
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- Francis William Newman
- Francis
- Frank Frankfort Moore
- Frank Harris
- Frank Smedley
- Frank Thomas Bullen
- Fred Whishaw
- Harrison, Frederic, Litt.D.
- Frederic William Farrar
- Frederic William Henry Myers
- Frederick Chamier
- Frederick Denison Maurice
- Frederick James Furnivall, Ph.D., D.Litt.
- Frederick Locker-Lampson
- Frederick Marryat
- Frederick S. Boas
- Frederick Tennyson
- Frederick Wedmore
- Frederick William Faber
- Frederick William Robertson
- Frederick York Powell
- Friedrich Max-Müller
- Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord
[edit] G
- Gabriel Harvey
- Gavin Douglas
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Geoffrey Gaimar
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- George Alfred Henty
- George Alfred Lawrence
- George Augustus Henry Sala
- George Bancroft
- George Berkeley
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Borrow
- George Buchanan
- George Bull
- George Campbell
- George Canning
- George Catlin
- George Cavendish
- George Chalmers
- George Chapman
- Colman, George, the Elder
- Colman, George, the Younger
- George Combe
- George Crabbe
- George Croly
- George Darley
- George Douglas Brown
- George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
- George Ellis
- George Farquhar
- George Finlay
- George Fox
- George Gascoigne
- George Gilfillan
- George Gillespie
- George Gissing
- George Gregory Smith
- George Grote
- George Grub
- George Henry Boker
- George Henry Lewes
- George Herbert
- George John Whyte-Melville
- George Lillie Craik
- George Lillo
- George Long
- George Louis Becke
- George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier
- Lyttelton, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton
- George Macaulay Trevelyan
- George Macdonald
- George Meredith
- George Moore
- George Outram
- George Payne Rainsford James
- George Peele
- George Psalmanazar
- George Puttenham
- George Rawlinson
- George Robert Gleig
- George Robert Sims
- George Sale
- George Sandys
- George Steevens
- George Ticknor
- George Tucker
- Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
- George Walter Prothero, Litt.D., Ll.D., Etc.
- George Warrington Steevens
- George Washington Cable
- George Whetstone
- George William Curtis
- George Wither
- Gerald Griffin
- Gerald Massey
- Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury
- Gervase Markham
- Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
- Gilbert Burnet
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Murray, George Gilbert Aimee, Ll.D.
- Gilbert Stuart
- Gilbert Wakefield
- Gilbert White
- Gildas
- Giles Fletcher, and Phineas Fletcher
- Giraldus Cambrensis (Literary Name of Gerald De Barri)
- Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Grace Aguilar
- Grace Rhys
[edit] H
- H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Hall Caine
- Hannah More
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Martineau
- Harry Buxton Forman, C.B.
- Hartley Coleridge
- Hector Boece or Boethius
- Hector Macneill
- Dufferin, Helen Selena (Sheridan), Countess of
- Henry Alford
- Henry Arthur Jones
- Henry Austin Dobson Ll.D.
- Henry Brereton Marriott Watson
- Henry Brooke
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry, 1st Lord
- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord]]
- Henry Carey
- Henry Charles Beeching
- Henry Chettle
- Henry Cockburn
- Henry Cockton
- Henry Constable
- Henry Crabb Robinson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Drummond
- Henry Edward Manning
- Henry Fawcett
- Henry Fielding
- Henry Francis Cary
- Henry Francis Lyte
- Henry Fynes Clinton
- Henry Gally Knight
- Henry George Liddell
- Henry Glapthorne
- Henry Glassford Bell
- Henry Hallam
- Henry Harland
- Henry Hart Milman
- Henry James Byron
- Henry James Pye
- Henry King
- Henry Kingsley
- Henry Kirke White
- Henry Longueville Mansel
- Henry Mackenzie
- Henry More
- Henry Morley
- Henry of Huntingdon
- Henry Parry Liddon
- Henry Reed
- Henry Reeve
- Henry Rider Haggard
- Henry Rogers
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
- Henry Thomas Buckle
- Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell
- Henry Timrod
- Henry Vaughan
- Henry VIII
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry Wheeler ("Josh Billings") Shaw
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- Herbert Knowles
- Herbert Marsh
- Herbert Spencer
- Herbert Trench
- Herbert Woodfield Paul
- Herman Melville
- Hester (Mulso) Chapone
- Hester Lynch (Salusbury) Piozzi
- Hilaire Belloc
- Horace Annesley Vachell
- Horace Greeley
- Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., Ll.D.
- Horace Smith
- Horatio or Horace Walpole
- Horatius Bonar
- or Sir Hugh of Eglinton Huchown
- Hugh Blair
- Hugh Kelly
- Hugh Latimer
- Hugh Miller
- Hugh Stowell Scott
- Humphrey Prideaux
[edit] I
- Isaac Barrow
- Isaac Bickerstaffe
- Isaac D'israeli
- Isaac Hawkins Browne
- Isaac Taylor
- Isaac Watts
- Israel Gollancz, Litt.D.
- Israel Zangwill
- Izaak Walton
[edit] J
- Bury, John B., Ll.D., Etc.
- J. M. Barrie
- Jack London
- Jacob Abbott
- Jacob Bryant
- James Anthony Froude
- James Augustus Grant
- James Ballantine
- James Bass Mullinger
- James Beattie
- James Beresford
- James Boswell
- James Bramston
- James Bruce
- Bryce, Right Hon. James, P.C., D.C.L., Etc.
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
- James Clarence Mangan
- James Cotter Morison
- James David Forbes
- James Douglas
- James Fenimore Cooper
- James Fergusson
- Sir James Stephen
- James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
- James Frazer, James George, Ll.D., D.C.L.
- James Frederick Ferrier
- James Gairdner, C.B., Ll.D.
- James Gates Percival
- James Grahame
- James Grainger
- James Granger
- James Grant
- James Hannay
- James Harrington
- James Harris
- James Henry Leigh Hunt
- James Hervey
- James Hinton
- James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd)
- James Howell
- James Hutchison Stirling
- James I of Scotland
- James Justinian Morier
- James Kirke Paulding
- James Lane Allen
- James Macpherson
- James Martineau
- James McCosh
- James Melville (1556-1614)
- James Mill
- James Montgomery
- Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, Ll.D., D.C.L., Etc.
- James Nayler
- James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
- James Payn
- James Robinson Planché
- James Rice
- James Russell Lowell
- James Sheridan Knowles
- James Shirley
- James Silk Buckingham
- James Spedding
- James Thomson
- James Thomson
- James Ussher
- James Whitcomb Riley
- James Wills
- Jane Ellen Harrison, Ll.D., Etc.
- Jane Helen Findlater
- Jasper Mayne
- Jean Elliot
- Jean Ingelow
- Jeremy Bentham
- Jeremy Collier
- Jeremy Taylor
- Jerome Klapka Jerome
- Joanna Baillie
- Joel Barlow
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Erigena, or Scotus, John
- John ("Christopher North") Wilson
- John Abercrombie
- John Abraham Heraud
- John Addington Symonds
- John Adolphus
- John Aikin
- Stewart, John Alexander, Ll.D.
- John Arbuthnot
- John Armstrong (poet)
- John Arthur Blaikie
- John Asgill
- John Ashton
- John Aubrey
- John Austin
- John Bale
- John Banim
- John Barbour
- John Barclay
- John Bellenden
- John Bodenham
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
- Dr. John Brown
- John Buchan
- John Bunyan
- John Caird
- John Campbell Shairp
- John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
- John Capgrave
- John Chalkhill
- John Churton Collins
- John Clare
- John Cleveland
- John Colet
- John Colin Dunlop
- John Collins
- John Conington
- John Crowne
- John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
- John Davidson
- John Davies
- Davis, or Davys, John
- John Day
- John Dennis
- John Donne
- John Doran
- John Dryden
- John Dyer
- John Earle
- John Edward Bloundelle-Burton
- John Edward Courtenay D.C.L.
- John Esten Cooke
- John Evelyn
- John Ferguson McLennan
- John Fisher
- John Fiske
- John Flavel
- John Florio
- John Ford
- John Fordun
- John Forster
- John Forster
- John Fox
- John Foxe
- John Francis Campbell
- John Francis Waller
- John Galsworthy
- John Galt
- John Gauden
- John Gay
- John George Wood
- John Gibson Lockhart
- John Gillies
- John Gower
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- John Hales
- John Hay
- John Heneage Jesse
- John Henry Newman
- Hervey, John, Lord
- John Heywood
- John Hill Burton
- Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Lord
- John Home
- John Hookham Frere
- John Hoole
- John Horne Tooke
- John Howe
- John Howie
- John Hughes
- John Jortin
- John Keats
- John Keble
- John Kitto
- John Knox
- John Langhorne
- John Leland or Leyland
- Leslie, or Lesley, John
- John Lewis Burckhardt
- John Leyden
- John Lingard
- John Locke
- John Logan
- John Lothrop Motley
- John Louis De Lolme
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- John Lydgate
- John Lyly
- John Mackinnon Robertson
- John Mair, or Major, John
- John Marston
- John Mayne
- John Millington Synge
- John Milton
- John Mitchell
- John Moore
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn P.C., O.M., F.R.S.
- John Moultrie
- John Neal
- John Newton
- John Nichol
- John Norris
- John of Salisbury
- John of Trevisa
- John O'Keeffe
- John Oldham
- John Oldmixon
- John Owen
- John Owen
- John Oxenham
- John Pearson
- John Pendleton Kennedy
- Mahaffy, John Pentland, Ll.D., D.C.L., Etc.
- John Philips
- John Pierpont
- John Pinkerton
- John Pomfret
- John Ray
- John Richard Green
- John Row
- John Ruskin
- John Scott
- John Selden
- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
- John Skelton
- John Skinner
- John Speed
- John Spottiswood
- John Sterling
- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- John Stow
- Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard ("John Strange Winter")
- John Strype
- John Stuart Blackie
- John Stuart Mill
- John Tatham
- John Taylor
- John Tillotson
- John Tobin
- John Toland
- John Townsend Trowbridge
- John Trumbull
- John Tulloch
- John Tyndall
- John Veitch
- John Watson
- John Webster
- John Wesley Hales
- John Wesley
- John Wilkes
- John Wilkins
- John William Colenso
- Mackail, John William, Ll.D., Etc.
- John Wilmot Rochester
- John Wilson Croker
- John Wilson
- John Wolcot
- John Woolman
- Jonathan Edwards
- Jonathan Swift
- Jones Very
- Joseph Addison
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- Joseph Blanco White
- Joseph Butler
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Glanvill
- Joseph Hall
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse
- Joseph Jacobs
- Joseph Kirkland
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, K.C.B., F.R.S.
- Joseph Priestly
- Joseph Ritson
- Joseph Rodman Drake
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Joseph Skipsey
- Joseph Spence
- Joseph Warton
- Joshua Sylvester
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- Julia Kavanagh
- Julia Pardoe
- Julian Hawthorne
- Juliana Berners
- Juliana Horatia (Gatty) Ewing
- Julius Charles Hare
- Justin Huntly Mccarthy
- Justin McCarthy
[edit] K
- Kames, Henry Home, Lord
- Kate Douglas Wiggin ("Mrs. George C. Riggs")
- Kenneth Grahame
[edit] L
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Lady Charlotte Guest
- Lady Georgiana Fullerton (Leveson-Gower)
- Lady Grizel Baillie
- Lady John (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) Scott
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Lancelot Andrewes
- Laurence Binyon
- Laurence Echard
- Laurence Housman
- Laurence Minot
- Laurence Oliphant
- Laurence Sterne
- Layamon
- Leitch Ritchie
- Courtney, Wm. Leonard, Ll.D.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Lewis Campbell
- Lewis Theobald
- Lewis Wallace
- Lindley Murray
- Lionel Johnson
- Lorimer Fison D.D.
- Louisa M. Alcott
- Louisa Stuart Costello
- Louise De La ("Ouida") Ramée
- Lucy Aikin
- Lucy Bethia Walford
- W.K. (Lane) Clifford
- Lucy Hutchinson
- Lydia Maria (Francis) Child
- Lydia (Huntley) Sigourney
[edit] M
- Malcolm Laing
- Mandell Creighton
- Marcus Clarke
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
- Margaret Scott Gatty ("Mrs. Alfred Gatty")
- Margaret Oliphant (Wilson) Oliphant
- Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
- Maria Edgeworth
- Maria (Gowan) Brooks
- Maria Susanna Cummins
- Marie Corelli
- Mark Akenside
- Mark Lemon
- Mark Napier
- Mark Pattison
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Mary (Blackford) Tighe
- Mary Augusta Ward ("Mrs. Humphrey Ward")
- Mary (Balfour) Brunton
- Mary Cholmondeley
- Delarivier Manley
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins ("Mrs. C.M. Freeman")
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Mary Martha (Butt) Sherwood
- Mary Noailles Murfree ("Charles Egbert Craddock")
- Mary Russell Mitford
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
- Mary (Fairfax) Somerville
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Mathilde Blind
- Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Matthew Arnold
- Matthew Green
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Matthew Henry
- Matthew Paris
- Matthew Phipps Shiel
- Matthew Prior
- Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Max Beerbohm
- Max Pemberton
- May De La Cherois Crommelin
- May Sinclair
- Mayne Reid
- Michael Bruce
- Michael Drayton
- Michael Faraday
- Michael Scott
- Miles Coverdale
- Mortimer Collins
- Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff
- Mountstuart Elphinstone
- Mungo Park
[edit] N
- Nahum Tate
- Nassau William Senior
- Nathaniel Beverly Tucker
- Nathaniel Field
- Nathaniel Gould
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nathaniel Lee
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Neil Munro
- Nicholas Breton
- Nicholas Grimoald
- Nicholas Rowe
- Nicolas Udall
- Noah Webster
- Norman Macleod
[edit] O
- Oliver Elton
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, F.R.S., Ll.D.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- or Newbury William of Newburgh
- Ordericus Vitalis
- Ormin or Orm
- Oscar Browning
- Oscar O'flaherty Wilde
- Owen Feltham
- Owen Morgan Edwards
- Owen Seaman
[edit] P
- Patrick Abercrombie
- Patrick Fraser Tytler
- Paul Hamilton Hayne
- Paul Leicester Ford
- Paul Rapin De Thoyras
- Paul Rycaut, or Ricaut, Sir Paul
- Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) Craigie
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Percy Gardner, Litt.D., Ll.D.
- Peter Heylin
- Brown, Peter Hume, Ll.D.
- Philemon Holland
- Philip Bourke Marston
- Philip Doddridge
- Philip Freneau
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Philip James Bailey
- Philip Massinger
- Philip Massinger
- Philip Meadows Taylor
- Pierce Egan
- Pollard, Albert Frederick, F.R.Hist.S.
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Ralph Cudworth
- Ralph Erskine
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ranulf or Ralph Higden
- Raphael Holinshed, or Hollingshead, Raphael or Ralph _D._
- Reginald Heber
- Reginald Lane Poole, Ph.D.
- Reginald Pecock
- Rev. Philip Henry Wicksteed
- Rhoda Broughton
- Rhys, Sir John, D.Litt.
- Richard Bagot
- Richard Bannatyne
- Richard Barnfield
- Richard Baxter
- Richard Bentley
- Richard Braithwaite or Brathwaite
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Richard Brome
- Richard Carew
- Richard Chenevix Trench
- Richard Corbet
- Richard Crashaw
- Richard Cumberland
- Richard De Bury
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Richard Edwards
- Richard Farmer
- Richard Flecknoe
- Richard Ford
- Richard Garnett
- Richard Gifford
- Richard Glover
- Richard Gough
- Richard Grafton
- Richard Grant White
- Richard Hakluyt
- Richard Harding Davis
- Richard Harris Barham
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Richard Henry Dana
- Richard Henry or Hengist Horne
- Richard Henry Stoddard
- Richard Holt Hutton
- Richard Hooker
- Richard Hurd
- Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb
- Richard Jefferies
- Richard Knolles
- Richard Le Gallienne
- Richard Lodge, Ll.D., Etc.
- Richard Lovelace
- Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord
- Richard Porson
- Richard Price
- Richard Rolle
- Richard Savage
- Richard Sibbes
- Richard Stanyhurst
- Richard Watson Dixon
- Richard Watson Gilder
- Richard Whateley
- Richard Whiteing
- Richard William Church
- Robert Bage
- Robert Baillie
- Robert Barclay
- Robert Blair
- Robert Bloomfield
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham
- Robert Bridges
- Robert Browning
- Robert Buchanan
- Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl of Lytton
- Robert Burns
- Robert Burton
- Robert Carruthers
- Robert Chambers
- Robert Charles Sands
- Robert Dodsley
- Robert Fabyan
- Robert Fergusson
- Robert Flint D.D., Ll.D.
- Robert Gilfillan
- Robert Greene
- Robert Grosseteste
- Robert Hall
- Robert Henry
- Robert Henryson
- Robert Herrick
- Robert Keith
- Robert Leighton
- Lindsay, or Lindesay, Robert
- Robert Lloyd
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Lowth
- Robert Mannyng or Robert De Brunne
- Robert Michael Ballantyne
- Robert Montgomery Bird
- Robert Montgomery
- Robert Orme
- Robert Owen
- Robert Paltock
- Robert Plumer Ward
- Robert Pollok
- Robert Rollock
- Robert Sanderson
- Robert Smith Surtees
- Robert Smythe Hichens
- Robert South
- Robert Southey
- Robert Southwell
- Robert Stawell Ball
- Robert Stephen Hawker
- Robert Tannahill
- Robert Vaughan
- Robert Watson
- Robert William Chambers
- Robert Wodrow
- Robinson Ellis
- Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
- Roger Ascham
- Roger Bacon
- Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of
- Roger De Wendover
- Sir Roger L'estrange
- Rosa Campbell Praed
- Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of
- Rose, John Holland, Litt.D.
- Prothero, Rowland Edmund, M.V.O.
- Rudolf Eric- Raspe
- Rudyard Kipling
- Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell
[edit] S
- Sabine Baring-Gould
- Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, Ll.D., D.Litt., Etc.
- Samuel Bishop
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Clarke
- Samuel Daniel
- Samuel Foote
- Samuel Henry Butcher, Ll.D., Etc.
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Lover
- Samuel Pepys
- Samuel Phillips
- Samuel Pordage
- Samuel Purchas
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner
- Samuel Richardson
- Samuel Rogers
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- Samuel Rutherford
- Samuel Smiles
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Samuel Warren
- Sandys, John Edwin, Litt.D.
- Sara Coleridge
- Sara Jeannette Duncan Cotes
- Sarah Fielding
- Sarah Grand
- Sarah Margaret Fuller
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Sayce, Archibald Henry, D.Litt., Ll.D., Etc.
- Scotus Johannes Duns
- Shackerley Marmion
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of
- Sharon Turner
- Colvin, Sidney, D.Litt.
- Sidney James Low
- Sidney Lanier
- Sidney Lee D.Litt., Ll.D.
- Sidney, or Sydney, Algernon
- Silas Weir Mitchell M.D., Ll.D.
- Simon Grahame
- Simon Ockley
- Sir Alexander Boswell
- Sir Archibald Alison
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
- Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
- Sir Charles Lyell
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Sir Daniel Wilson
- Sir David Brewster
- Sir Edward Dyer
- Sir Edwin Arnold
- Sir Francis Palgrave
- Sir George Etherege
- Sir Henry Cresswicke Rawlinson
- Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley
- Sir Henry Savile
- Sir Henry Spelman
- Sir Henry Taylor
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Sir Humphrey Davy
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir James Mackintosh
- Sir John Beaumont
- Sir John Bowring
- Sir John Davies
- Sir John Denham
- Sir John Fortescue
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel
- Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
- Sir John Harington
- Sir John Malcolm
- Sir John Mandeville
- Sir John Robert Seeley
- Sir John Suckling
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Sir Kenelm Digby
- Sir Leslie Stephen
- Sir Matthew Hale
- Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall
- Sir Philip Francis
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Sir Richard Baker
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- Sir Richard Fanshawe
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Sir Richard Maitland
- Sir Richard Steele
- Sir Robert Ayton
- Sir Robert Filmer
- Sir Samuel White Baker
- Sir Spencer Walpole
- Sir Theodore Martin
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Sir Thomas Hoby
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Sir Thomas More
- Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
- Sir Thomas North
- Sir Thomas Overbury
- Sir Thomas Urquhart
- Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Sir Walter Besant
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sir William Blackstone
- Sir William Dugdale
- Sir William Hamilton
- Sir William Howard Russell
- Sir William Jones
- Sir William Smith
- Sir William Stirling-Maxwell
- Sir William Temple
- Skeat, Rev. Walter William, Litt.D., Ll.D.
- Smith, George Adam, D.D., Ll.D.
- Smith, Goldwin, D.C.L.
- Sophia Lee
- St. Adamnan
- Standish James O'Grady
- Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope
- Stanley John Weyman
- Lane-Poole, Stanley, Litt.D., Etc.
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence, L.H.D., Ll.D.,
- Stephen Collins Foster
- Stephen Gosson
- Stephen Hawes
- Stephen Phillips
- Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of
- Brooke, Rev. Stopford Augustus, Ll.D.
- Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
- Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
- Susan Warner
- Susanna Blamire
- Susanna Centlivre
- Sydney Grundy
- Sydney Smith
- Sydney Thompson Dobell
- Sylvester Judd
[edit] T
- Tabley De, John Byron Leicester Warren, 3rd Lord
- Temple, Sir Richard Carnac, C.I.E.
- Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord
- Theodore Edward Hook
- Theodore Parker
- Theodore Watts-Dunton
- Theodore Winthrop
- Thomas Aird
- Thomas Alexander Browne
- Thomas Amory
- Thomas Anstey Guthrie ("F. Anstey")
- Thomas Arnold
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Thomas Blacklock
- Thomas Boston
- Thomas Bowdler
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Thomas Brown
- Thomas Buchanan Read
- Thomas Burnet
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Campion
- Thomas Carew
- Thomas Carlyle
- Thomas Carte
- Thomas Chalmers
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Thomas Chatterton
- Thomas Churchyard
- Thomas Colley Grattan
- Thomas Cooper
- Coryate, or Coryatt, Thomas
- Thomas Cranmer
- Thomas Creech
- Thomas Crofton Croker
- Thomas Day
- Thomas De Quincey
- Thomas Dekker
- Thomas Deloney
- Thomas Dermody
- Thomas D'urfey
- Thomas Edward Brown
- Thomas Ellwood
- Thomas Erskine
- Thomas Frederick Tout
- Thomas Fuller
- Thomas Goodwin
- Thomas Gordon Hake
- Thomas Gray
- Thomas Guthrie
- Thomas Hamilton
- Thomas Hardy, Ll.D.
- Thomas Hartwell Horne
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
- Thomas Hearne
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Thomas Henry Lister
- Thomas Heywood
- Thomas Hill Green
- Thomas Hobbes
- Hodgkin, Thomas, D.C.L., Etc.
- Thomas Holcroft
- Thomas Hood
- Thomas Hope
- Thomas Hughes
- Thomas Innes
- Thomas James Mathias
- Thomas Jefferson Hogg
- Thomas Keightley
- Thomas Ken
- Thomas Killigrew
- Thomas Kyd
- Thomas Lodge
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Thomas May
- Thomas M'crie
- Thomas Middleton
- Thomas Miller
- Thomas Moore
- Thomas Morton
- Thomas Nabbes
- Thomas Nash
- Hoccleve, or Occleve, Thomas
- Thomas Okey
- Thomas Osborne Davis
- Thomas Otway
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Parnell
- Thomas Pennant
- Thomas Percy
- Thomas Pringle
- Thomas Randolph
- Thomas Reid
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Thomas Ruddiman
- Thomas Rymer
- Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of, and Lord Buckhurst
- Thomas Seccombe
- Thomas Shadwell
- Thomas Southerne
- Thomas Spencer Baynes
- Thomas Sprat
- Thomas Stanley
- Thomas Stephens
- Thomas Sternhold
- Thomas Storer
- Thomas Taylor
- Thomas Tickell
- Thomas Traherne
- Thomas Tusser
- Thomas Underdown
- Thomas Usk
- Thomas Wade
- Thomas Warton
- Thomas Watson
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Thomas William Robertson
- Thomas Wilson
- Thomas Woolner
- Thomas Wright
- Thomas Yalden
- Timothy Dwight
- Tobias George Smollett
- Tom Brown
- Tom Taylor
- Tourneur, or Turner, Cyril
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, P.C., Ll.D., Etc.
- Turberville, or Turbervile, George
- Tylor, Edward Burnett, Ll.D., F.R.S.
- Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton, Ll.D., D.C.L.
[edit] V
[edit] W
- Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
- W.H. Hudson
- Wace
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, F.R.S., Ll.D., Etc.
- Walter Bagehot
- Walter Bower or Bowmaker
- Walter Chalmers Smith
- Walter Charleton
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- Walter Goodall
- Walter Herries Pollock
- Walter Horatio Pater
- Walter Kennedy
- Walter Leaf , Litt.D.
- Walter Map, or Mapes, Walter De
- Walter or Walt Whitman
- Walter Raleigh
- Walter Savage Landor
- Ward, Adolphus William, Litt.D., Ll.D.
- Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady
- Washington Allston
- Washington Irving
- Watson, William, Ll.D.
- Wells, Herbert George, B.Sc., Etc.
- Wharton, Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquis of
- Whitwell Elwin
- Wiclif, or Wyclif, John
- Campbell, Wilfred, Ll.D.
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- William ("Fiona Macleod") Sharp
- William Allingham
- William Archer
- William Arthur Law
- William Barnes Rhodes
- William Barnes
- William Beckford
- William Bell Scott
- William Black
- William Blake
- William Broome
- William Browne
- William Butler Yeats
- William Camden
- William Carew Hazlitt
- William Carleton
- William Cartwright
- William Caxton
- William Chamberlayne
- William Chambers
- William Chillingworth
- William Clark Russell
- William Cobbett
- William Collins
- William Combe
- William Congreve
- William Cowper
- William Coxe
- William Crowe
- William Cullen Bryant
- Cunningham, William, D.D.
- William Dampier
- William Davenant, or D'avenant, Sir William
- Howells, William Dean, D.Litt.
- William Dodd
- William Drummond
- William Dunbar
- William Dwight Whitney
- William Edmonstone Aytoun
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
- William Edward Norris
- William Ellery Channing
- William Ernest Henley
- William Ewart Gladstone
- William Falconer
- William Fitzstephen
- William Forbes Skene
- Butler, Sir William Francis, G.C.B.
- William Frend De Morgan
- William George Ward
- William Gifford
- William Gilmore Simms
- William Glen
- William Godwin
- William Gordon Stables
- William Gorman Wills
- William Habington
- William Hale White
- William (of Bangour) Hamilton
- William Hamilton Maxwell
- William (of Gilbertfield) Hamilton
- William Hanna
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- William Hayley
- William Hazlitt
- William Henry Giles Kingston
- William Henry Ireland
- William Hepworth Dixon
- William Hickling Prescott
- William Hone
- William Howitt
- William Hunnis
- William Hurrell Mallock
- William James Ll.D., Etc.
- Courthope, William John, C.B., Ll.D., Etc.
- William John Locke
- William John Thoms
- William Johnson Cory
- William Julius Mickle
- William Kingsford
- William Knox
- William Laidlaw
- William Langland
- William Law
- William Lilly
- William Lisle Bowles
- William Lithgow
- William Lloyd Garrison
- William Maginn
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- William Mason
- William Meston
- William Michael Rossetti
- William Minto
- William Mitford
- William Morris
- William Motherwell
- William Mure
- William Nugent Glascock
- William of Malmesbury
- William Occam or Ockham
- William Oldys
- William Painter
- William Paley
- William Penn
- William Pett Ridge
- William Prynne
- William Rathbone Greg
- William Reynell Anson
- William Robert Spencer
- Nicoll, Sir William Robertson, Ll.D.
- William Robertson Smith
- William Robertson
- William Roper
- William Roscoe
- William Rowley
- William Russell
- William Shakespeare
- William Shenstone
- William Sherlock
- William Somerset Maugham
- William Somerville
- William Sotheby
- William Stanley Jevons
- William Stewart Rose
- William Strode
- William Stubbs
- William Stukeley
- William Taylor
- William Tennant
- William Tyndale
- William Tytler
- William Warburton
- William Warner
- William Webbe
- William Westall
- William Wetmore Story
- William Whewell
- William Whiston
- William Whitehead
- William Wilberforce
- William Wilkie Collins
- William Wilkie
- William Winter
- William Wordsworth
- William Wycherley
- William Wymark Jacobs
- William Young Sellar
- Winston Churchill
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Wood, or À Wood, Anthony
- Wright, William Aldis, Ll.D., Etc
- Zachary Boyd
[edit] Unsorted
- Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope") Hawkins
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")
- Ercildoun, Thomas of, or "Thomas the Rhymer"
- Lady Charlotte Bury
- Mary Ann or Marian Evans ("George Eliot")
- Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison ("Lucas Malet")
- Rev. Augustus Jessop, D.D.
- Rev. Joseph Hocking
- Rev. Silas Kitto Hocking
- Rev. William Francis Barry D.D.
- Rev. William Holden Hutton, B.D.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
- Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
- Sir Edwin Pears
- Sir Francis Bond Head
- Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S., D.C.L.
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
- Sir George Brisbane Scott Douglas, Bart.
- Sir George Cornewall Lewis
- Sir George Mackenzie
- Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, F.R.S., Ll.D., Etc.
- Sir James Melville of Halhill
- Sir John Hayward
- Sir John Knox Laughton
- Sir John Skelton
- Sir John William Kaye
- Sir Joseph Archer Crowe
- Sir Lewis Morris
- Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
- Sir Robert Howard
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
- Sir Samuel Ferguson
- Sir Samuel Garth
- Sir Thomas Dick Lauder
- Sir Thomas Elyot
- Sir Thomas Herbert
- Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
- the Hon. Robert Boyle
- Wm. Henry Oliphant Smeaton, M.A.