People in the category writers (1500-1900)

Authors 1 till 100 of 221.

• Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet 1672 - 1719 95
• Louisa May Alcott
  American Author 1832 - 1888 16
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Deens poet and fairy tale writer 1805 - 1875 2
• John Arbuthnot
  Scottish physician, satirist and polymath 1667 - 1735 3
• Pietro Aretino
  Italian writer 1492 - 1556 2
• Ernst Moritz Arndt
  German nationalist historian, writer, and poet 1769 - 1860 2
• George Arnold
  American author and poet 1834 - 1865 1
• Roger Ascham
  English scholar and didactic writer 1515 - 1568 1
• John Aubrey
  English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer 1626 - 1697 1
• Berthold Auerbach
  German-Jewish writer and poet 1812 - 1882 16
• Jane Austen
  English writer 1775 - 1817 72
• Hosea Ballou
  American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' 1771 - 1852 17
• Honoré de Balzac
  French writer 1799 - 1850 32
• Benjamin Banneker
  African-American almanac author, and surveyor 0 - 1806 5
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  Spanish playwright 1600 - 1681 5
• Pierre de Beaumarchais
  French playwright 1732 - 1799 8
• Francis Beaumont
  English writer and poet 1584 - 1616 8
• Aphra Behn
  English playwright, poet and translator 1640 - 1689 9
• Isaac Bickerstaffe
  Irish playwright and librettist 1733 - 1812 1
• Hugh Blair
  Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician 1718 - 1800 5
• Lady Blessington
  Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess 1789 - 1849 9
• George Borrow
  English writer of novels and travel books 1803 - 1881 7
• Jacques BéNigne Bossuet
  French bishop and writer 1627 - 1704 2
• James Boswell
  Scottish biographer and diarist 1740 - 1795 5
• Dion Boucicault
  Irish actor and dramatist 1822 - 1890 1
• Nicholas Breton
  English poet and novelist 1545 - 1626 3
• Anne Brontë
  British writer 1820 - 1849 26
• Charlotte Brontë
  British Novelist 1816 - 1855 40
• Emily Brontë
  British writer, poet 1818 - 1848 21
• Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher 1605 - 1682 26
• Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer 1645 - 1696 70
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet 1803 - 1873 54
• Henry Cuyler Bunner
  American writer 1855 - 1896 1
• John Bunyan
  British writer 1628 - 1688 12
• Fanny Burney
  English author 1752 - 1840 2
• Robert Burton
  English clergyman and writer 1577 - 1640 17
• Charles Buxton
  British writer 1823 - 1871 7
• Jane Welsh Carlyle
  Scottish writer 1801 - 1866 2
• Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus 1795 - 1881 229
• Lewis Carroll
  British Writer, Mathematician 1832 - 1898 24
• Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet 1547 - 1616 88
• Alexander Chalmers
  Scottish writer and journalist 1759 - 1834 1
• Nicolas Chamfort
  French writer, journalist and playwright 1741 - 1794 43
• Adelbert von Chamisso
  German writer, liar and explorer 1781 - 1838 14
• Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman 1814 - 1880 19
• George Chapman
  English writer and poet 1559 - 1634 6
• Francois René de Chateaubriand
  French poet, writer and politician 1768 - 1848 6
• Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) 1694 - 1773 107
• Lydia M. Child
  American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor 1802 - 1880 11
• Colley Cibber
  English actor-manager, playwright and poet 1671 - 1757 5
• Hartley Coleridge
  English poet, biographer and writer (eldest son of S. T. Coleridge) 1796 - 1849 1
• Jeremy Collier
  English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian 1650 - 1726 12
• Carlo Collodi
  Italian author, humorist and journalist 1826 - 1890 11
• Charles Caleb Colton
  English writer 1777 - 1832 115
• William Congreve
  British Dramatist 1670 - 1729 17
• Eliza Cook
  English author and poet 1818 - 1889 5
• James Fenimore Cooper
  American writer 1789 - 1851 15
• Pierre Corneille
  French playwright 1606 - 1684 21
• George William Curtis
  American journalist 1824 - 1892 8
• Isaac D'Israeli
  British scholar and writer 1766 - 1848 5
• Daniel Defoe
  English writer 1660 - 1731 13
• Thomas Dekker
  English dramatist and pamphleteer 1572 - 1632 1
• Jacques Delille
  French author 1738 - 1813 3
• Charles Dickens
  English writer 1812 - 1870 109
• Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer 1804 - 1881 174
• Fjodor M. Dostojewski
  Russisch writer 1821 - 1881 24
• Henry Drummond
  Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer 1786 - 1860 8
• John Dryden
  English poet and playwright 1631 - 1700 71
• Alexandre Dumas père
  French writer 1802 - 1870 18
• George Eliot
  English writer and poet 1819 - 1880 160
• Frederick W. Faber
  English hymn writer and theologian 1814 - 1863 5
• Eliza Farnham
  American novelist, feminist and abolitionist 1815 - 1864 4
• George Farquhar
  Irish playwright 1677 - 1707 11
• Owen Felltham
  English writer 1602 - 1668 5
• François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop 1651 - 1715 13
• Eugene Field
  American writer 1850 - 1895 3
• Henry Fielding
  English writer 1707 - 1754 42
• Gustave Flaubert
  French writer 1821 - 1880 5
• John Fletcher
  English playwright 1579 - 1625 3
• Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer 1621 - 1695 31
• Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  French author  1657 - 1757 17
• Margaret Fuller
  American writer 1810 - 1850 10
• Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer 1608 - 1661 114
• Elisabeth Gaskell
  British writer 1810 - 1865 2
• Elizabeth Gaskell
  British writer 1810 - 1865 10
• John Gay
  British playwright and poet 1685 - 1732 31
• Henry Giles
  British Unitarian minister and writer 1809 - 1882 5
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  German writer and poet 1749 - 1832 321
• Carlo Goldoni
  Italian playwright 1707 - 1793 3
• Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet 1728 - 1774 85
• Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic 1822 - 1896 13
• Anne Grant
  Scottish poet and author 1755 - 1838 6
• Franz Grillparzer
  Austrian play writer 1791 - 1872 3
• Francesco Guicciardini
  Italian politician, soldier and historian 1483 - 1540 2
• Thomas C. Haliburton
  Canadian jurist, writer 1796 - 1865 10
• Gail Hamilton
  American writer 1833 - 1896 2
• Augustus William Hare
  British writer 1792 - 1834 34
• Julius Charles Hare
  English theological writer 1795 - 1855 1
• John Hawkesworth
  English writer and book editor 1715 - 1773 1
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American short story writer 1804 - 1864 32

Authors 1 till 100 of 221.

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