People in the category writers (1500-1900)

Authors 101 till 200 of 221.

• William Hazlitt
  English writer 1778 - 1830 140
• Sir Arthur Helps
  English writer and dean of the Privy Council 1813 - 1875 7
• John Heywood
  English writer, playwright and poet 1497 - 1580 6
• Aaron Hill
  English dramatist and writer 1685 - 1750 21
• Josiah Gilbert Holland
  American Author 1819 - 1881 17
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809 - 1894 139
• James Howell
  English-Welsh historian and writer 1594 - 1666 3
• Victor Hugo
  French writer 1802 - 1885 78
• Leigh Hunt
  British poet, essaywriter 1784 - 1859 10
• Washington Irving
  American writer 1783 - 1859 28
• Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
  French author, poet 1846 - 1870 9
• Alice James
  American diarist 1848 - 1892 11
• Anna Brownell Jameson
  Irish-born English writer, 1794–1860; author of the Diary of an ennyueé 1794 - 1860 1
• Douglas Jerrold
  English journalist and playwright 1803 - 1857 19
• Ben Johnson
  English playwright and poet 1572 - 1637 14
• Samuel Johnson
  English writer 1709 - 1784 385
• Joseph Joubert
  French writer 1754 - 1824 43
• Alphonse Karr
  French writer and editor of Le Figaro 1808 - 1890 13
• Charles Kingsley
  British writer 1819 - 1875 11
• Charles Lamb
  English essayist 1775 - 1834 34
• G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist 1742 - 1799 121
• Samuel Lover
  English-Irish composer, songwriter and painter 1797 - 1868 2
• John Lyly
  English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier 1553 - 1606 5
• Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian 1800 - 1859 30
• Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist 1670 - 1733 21
• Christopher Marlowe
  British Dramatist, Poet 1564 - 1593 14
• Harriet Martineau
  British writer, social criticus 1802 - 1876 11
• Philip Massinger
  English dramatist 1583 - 1640 6
• Guy de Maupassant
  French writer 1850 - 1893 1
• Giuseppe Mazzini
  Italian writer 1805 - 1872 7
• Herman Melville
  American author 1819 - 1891 24
• Owen Meredith
  British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) 1802 - 1873 3
• Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
  French revolutionary and writer 1749 - 1791 6
• Moliere
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) 1622 - 1673 25
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  English writer 1689 - 1762 31
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher 1533 - 1592 136
• Thomas Moore
  Irish poet 1779 - 1852 12
• Hannah More
  British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist 1745 - 1833 11
• Lady Morgan
  Irish writer (born: Sydney Owenson) 1781 - 1859 1
• William Morris
  British artist, writer 1834 - 1896 6
• Alfred de Musset
  French writer 1810 - 1857 9
• Gerard De Nerval
  French writer, poet 1808 - 1855 6
• Novalis
  German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) 1772 - 1801 10
• John Boyle O'Reilly
  Irish poet, journalist, author and activist 1844 - 1890 2
• Margaret Oliphant
  British writer, historian 1828 - 1897 9
• Thomas Otway
  English dramatist 1652 - 1685 4
• Thomas Love Peacock
  English novelist, poet, and official 1785 - 1866 5
• Samuel Pepys
  English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament 1633 - 1703 9
• Albert Pike
  American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason 1809 - 1891 17
• Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic 1809 - 1849 35
• Jane Porter
  English writer 1776 - 1850 3
• Noah Porter
  American academic, philosopher and author 1811 - 1892 1
• Thomas De Quincey
  British writer 1785 - 1859 8
• François Rabelais
  French writer 1483 - 1553 7
• Jean Baptiste Racine
  French playwright 1639 - 1699 6
• Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer 1552 - 1618 19
• Thomas Randolph
  English poet and playwright 1605 - 1635 1
• Charles Reade
  British writer 1814 - 1884 3
• Ernest Renan
  French writer and critic 1823 - 1892 13
• Cardinal de Retz
  French churchman and writer of memoirs 1613 - 1679 7
• Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer 1613 - 1680 176
• Christina Rossetti
  British poet 1830 - 1894 11
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher 1712 - 1778 67
• Samuel Rutherford
  Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author 1600 - 1661 4
• Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher 1740 - 1814 41
• George Sand
  French writer 1804 - 1876 12
• Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright 1759 - 1805 85
• Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet 1771 - 1832 33
• Johann Gottfried Seume
  German writer 1763 - 1810 5
• Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
  French letter writer and aristocrat 1626 - 1696 4
• Anna Sewell
  English novelist 1820 - 1878 4
• William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616 536
• Mary Shelly
  English writer (b. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1797 - 1851 1
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Anglo-Irish dramatist 1751 - 1816 25
• Sir Philip Sidney
  British Author, Courtier 1554 - 1586 16
• Charles Simmons
  American editor and novelist 1798 - 1856 8
• William Gilmore Simms
  American poet, novelist and historian 1806 - 1870 8
• Alexander Smith
  Scottish Poet, Author 1829 - 1867 29
• Horace Smith
  English poet and writer 1779 - 1849 1
• Mme de Stael
  French-Swiss novelist and essayist 1766 - 1817 10
• Captain J. G. Stedman
  British soldiar, writer, artist 1744 - 1797 6
• Sir Richard Steele
  British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor 1672 - 1729 20
• Stendhal
  French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) 1783 - 1842 11
• Laurence Sterne
  British author 1713 - 1768 21
• Abel Stevens
  American Methodist clergy 1815 - 1897 3
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet 1850 - 1894 93
• Benjamin Stillingfleet
  British botanist, translator and author 1702 - 1771 9
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  American Novelist 1811 - 1896 20
• Robert Smith Surtees
  English novelist and editor 1805 - 1864 1
• Anne Sophie Swetchine
  Russian writer 1782 - 1857 13
• Jonathan Swift
  English writer 1667 - 1745 90
• Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat 1825 - 1878 68
• Jeremy Taylor
  British churchman and writer 1613 - 1667 19
• William Tecumseh Sherman
  American soldier, businessman, educator and author 1820 - 1891 3
• Sir William Temple
  British Diplomat, Essayist 1628 - 1699 13
• W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist 1811 - 1863 33
• Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 1817 - 1862 282
• Anthony Trollope
  British writer 1815 - 1882 57
• Martin Farquhar Tupper
  English writer and poet 1810 - 1889 7
• Ivan Turgenev
  Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright 1818 - 1883 4

Authors 101 till 200 of 221.

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