# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

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Collection of authors' potted biographies; most are a single paragraph while others, such as Shakespeare's, are longer

## Deceased
### A

* Abbott, Jacob
* Abbott, John Stevens Cabot
* À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
* Abercrombie, John
* Abercrombie, Patrick
* Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Lord
* Adamnan, St.
* Adams, Francis, W.L.
* Addison, Joseph
* Adolphus, John
* Ælfred
* Ælfric
* Aguilar, Grace
* Aikin, John
* Aikin, Lucy
* Ainger, Alfred
* Ainsworth, William Harrison
* Aird, Thomas
* Akenside, Mark
* Alcott, Louisa M.
* Alcuin or Ealhwine
* Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
* Alesius, Alexander
* Alexander, Mrs. Cecil F.
* Alford, Henry
* Alison, Archibald
* Alison, Sir Archibald
* Allen, Charles Grant
* Allingham, William
* Allston, Washington
* Amory, Thomas
* Anderson, Alexander
* Andrewes, Lancelot
* Anstey, Christopher
* D'Arblay, Frances
* Arbuthnot, John
* Argyll, George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of
* Armstrong, John, M.D.
* Arnold, Matthew
* Arnold, Sir Edwin
* Arnold, Thomas
* Ascham, Roger
* Asgill, John
* Ashmole, Elias
* Asser
* Atherstone, Edwin
* Atterbury, Francis
* Aubrey, John
* Austen, Jane
* Austin, John
* Ayton, Sir Robert
* Aytoun, William Edmonstone

### B

* Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, And Viscount St. Alban
* Bacon, Roger
* Bage, Robert
* Bagehot, Walter
* Bailey, Philip James
* Baillie, Joanna
* Baillie, Lady Grizel
* Baillie, Robert
* Bain, Alexander
* Baker, Sir Richard
* Baker, Sir Samuel White
* Bale, John
* Ballantine, James
* Ballantyne, Robert Michael
* Bancroft, George
* Banim, John
* Bannatyne, Richard
* Barbauld, Anna Letitia
* Barbour, John
* Barclay, Alexander
* Barclay, John
* Barclay, Robert
* Barham, Richard Harris
* Barlow, Joel
* Barnard, Lady Anne
* Barnes, Barnabe
* Barnes, William
* Barnfield, Richard
* Barrow, Isaac
* Barton, Bernard
* Baxter, Richard
* Bayly, Ada Ellen
* Bayly, Thomas Haynes
* Baynes, Thomas Spencer
* Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of
* Beattie, James
* Beaumont, Francis
* Beaumont, Sir John
* Beckford, William
* Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
* Bede or BÆDA
* Beecher, Henry Ward
* Behn, Aphra
* Bell, Henry Glassford
* Bellenden, or Ballantyne, John
* Bentham, Jeremy
* Bentley, Richard
* Beresford, James
* Berkeley, George
* Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, Juliana
* Berners, John Bourchier, 2nd Lord
* Besant, Sir Walter
* Bickerstaffe, Isaac
* Bird, Robert Montgomery
* Bishop, Samuel
* Black, William
* Blackie, John Stuart
* Blacklock, Thomas
* Blackmore, Sir Richard
* Blackmore, Richard Doddridge
* Blackstone, Sir William
* Blair, Hugh
* Blair, Robert
* Blake, William
* Blamire, Susanna
* Blessington, Margaret
* Blind, Mathilde
* Blind Harry or Henry The Minstrel
* Bloomfield, Robert
* Bodenham, John
* Boece, or Boethius, Hector
* Boker, George Henry
* Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount
* Bonar, Horatius
* Boorde, or Borde, Andrew
* Borrow, George
* Boston, Thomas
* Boswell, James
* Boswell, Sir Alexander
* Boucicault, Dion
* Bowdler, Thomas
* Bower, Archibald
* Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter
* Bowles, William Lisle
* Bowring, Sir John
* Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
* Boyd, Zachary
* Boyle, The Hon. Robert
* Bradley, Edward
* Bradwardine, Thomas
* Braithwaite, or Brathwaite, Richard
* Bramston, James
* Bray, Anna Eliza
* Breton, Nicholas
* Brewster, Sir David
* Broke, or Brooke, Arthur
* Brome, Richard
* Bronté, Charlotte
* Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord
* Brooke, Henry
* Brooks, Charles William Shirley
* Brooks, Maria
* Broome, William
* Brougham And Vaux, Henry, 1st Lord
* Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Lord
* Brown, Charles Brockden
* Brown, Dr. John
* Brown, George Douglas
* Brown, Thomas
* Brown, Thomas Edward
* Brown, Tom
* Browne, Charles Farrar
* Browne, Isaac Hawkins
* Browne, Sir Thomas
* Browne, William
* Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
* Browning, Robert
* Bruce, James
* Bruce, Michael
* Brunton, Mary
* Bryant, Jacob
* Bryant, William Cullen
* Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton
* Buchanan, George
* Buchanan, Robert
* Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
* Buckingham, James Silk
* Buckingham And Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of
* Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
* Buckle, Henry Thomas
* Budgell, Eustace
* Bull, George
* Bunyan, John
* Burckhardt, John Lewis
* Burke, Edmund
* Burnet, Gilbert
* Burnet, Thomas
* Burns, Robert
* Burton, John Hill
* Burton, Robert
* Burton, Sir Richard Francis
* Bury, Lady Charlotte
* Bury, Richard de
* Butler, Joseph
* Butler, Samuel (satirist)
* Butler, Samuel (writer)
* Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
* Byron, Henry James

### C

* Cædmon
* Caird, Edward
* Caird, John
* Calamy, Edmund
* Calderwood, David
* Calverley, Charles Stuart
* Camden, William
* Campbell, George
* Campbell, John, 1st Lord Campbell
* Campbell, John Francis
* Campbell, Lewis
* Campbell, Thomas
* Campion, Thomas
* Canning, George
* Capgrave, John
* Carew, Richard
* Carew, Thomas
* Carey, Henry
* Carleton, William
* Carlyle, Alexander
* Carlyle, Thomas
* Carruthers, Robert
* Carte, Thomas
* Carter, Elizabeth
* Cartwright, William
* Cary, Alice
* Cary, Henry Francis
* Catlin, George
* Cave, Edward
* Cavendish, George
* Caxton, William
* Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna
* Chalkhill, John
* Chalmers, George
* Chalmers, Thomas
* Chamberlayne, William
* Chambers, Robert
* Chambers, William
* Chamier, Frederick
* Channing, William Ellery
* Chapman, George
* Chapone, Hester
* Charleton, Walter
* Chatterton, Thomas
* Chaucer, Geoffrey
* Cherry, Andrew
* Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
* Chettle, Henry
* Child, Francis J.
* Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria
* Chillingworth, William
* Church, Richard William
* Churchill, Charles
* Churchyard, Thomas
* Cibber, Colley
* Clare, John
* Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
* Clarke, Charles Cowden
* Clarke, Marcus
* Clarke, Samuel
* Cleveland, John
* Clinton, Henry Fynes
* Clough, Arthur Hugh
* Cobbe, Frances Power
* Cobbett, William
* Cockburn, Henry
* Cockton, Henry
* Colenso, John William
* Coleridge, Hartley
* Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
* Coleridge, Sara
* Colet, John
* Collier, Jeremy
* Collins, John
* Collins, John Churton
* Collins, Mortimer
* Collins, William
* Collins, William Wilkie
* Colman, George, The Elder
* Colman, George, The Younger
* Colton, Charles Caleb
* Combe, George
* Combe, William
* Congreve, William
* Conington, John
* Constable, Henry
* Cooke, John Esten
* Cooper, James Fenimore
* Cooper, Thomas
* Corbet, Richard
* Cory, William Johnson
* Coryate, or Coryatt, Thomas
* Costello, Louisa Stuart
* Cotton, Charles
* Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce
* Cousin, Anne Ross
* Coverdale, Miles
* Cowley, Abraham
* Cowper, William
* Coxe, William
* Crabbe, George
* Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa
* Craik, George Lillie
* Cranmer, Thomas
* Crashaw, Richard
* Crawford, Francis Marion
* Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd
* Creech, Thomas
* Creighton, Mandell
* Croker, John Wilson
* Croker, Thomas Crofton
* Croly, George
* Crowe, Catherine
* Crowe, Eyre Evans
* Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer
* Crowe, William
* Crowne, John
* Cudworth, Ralph
* Cumberland, Richard
* Cummins, Maria Susanna
* Cunningham, Allan
* Curtis, George William
* Cynewulf

### D

* D'Israeli, Isaac
* D'Urfey, Thomas
* Dalling And Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord
* Dampier, William
* Dana, Richard Henry
* Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
* Daniel, Samuel
* Darley, George
* Darwin, Charles Robert
* Darwin, Erasmus
* Dasent, Sir George Webbe
* Davenant, or D'Avenant, Sir William
* Davidson, John
* Davies, John
* Davies, Sir John
* Davis, Thomas Osborne
* Davis, or Davys, John
* Davy, Sir Humphrey
* Day, John
* Day, Thomas
* De Lolme, John Louis
* De Morgan, Augustus
* De Quincey, Thomas
* De Vere, Aubrey Thomas
* Defoe, Daniel
* Dekker, Thomas
* Deloney, Thomas
* Denham, Sir John
* Dennis, John
* Dermody, Thomas
* Dibdin, Charles
* Dickens, Charles
* Digby, Sir Kenelm
* Dilke, Charles Wentworth
* Dixon, Richard Watson
* Dixon, William Hepworth
* Dobell, Sydney Thompson
* Dodd, William
* Doddridge, Philip
* Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
* Dodsley, Robert
* Donne, John
* Doran, John
* Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of
* Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of, and Lord Buckhurst
* Douce, Francis
* Douglas, Gavin
* Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings
* Drake, Joseph Rodman
* Draper, John William
* Drayton, Michael
* Drummond, Henry
* Drummond, William
* Dryden, John
* Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson
* Duff, Sir Mountstuart E. Grant
* Dufferin, Helen Selena
* Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
* Dugdale, Sir William
* Dunbar, William
* Dunlop, John Colin
* Duns, Scotus Johannes
* Dwight, Timothy
* Dyce, Alexander
* Dyer, John
* Dyer, Sir Edward

### E

* Earle, John
* Eastlake, Elizabeth, Lady
* Echard, Laurence
* Edgar, John George
* Edgeworth, Maria
* Edwards, Jonathan
* Edwards, Richard
* Egan, Pierce
* Eggleston, Edward
* Elizabeth, Queen
* Elliot, Ebenezer
* Elliot, Miss Jean
* Ellis, George
* Ellwood, Thomas
* Elphinstone, Mountstuart
* Elwin, Whitwell
* Elyot, Sir Thomas
* Emerson, Ralph Waldo
* Ercildoun, Thomas of, or "Thomas The Rhymer"
* Erigena, or Scotus, John
* Erskine, Ralph
* Erskine, Thomas
* Etherege, Sir George
* Evans, Mary Ann or Marian
* Evelyn, John
* Ewing, Mrs. Juliana Horatia

### F

* Faber, Frederick William
* Fabyan, Robert
* Fairfax, Edward
* Falconer, William
* Fanshawe, Catherine Maria
* Fanshawe, Sir Richard
* Faraday, Michael
* Farmer, Richard
* Farquhar, George
* Farrar, Frederic William
* Fawcett, Henry
* Fawkes, Francis
* Feltham, Owen
* Fenton, Elijah
* Ferguson, Adam
* Ferguson, Sir Samuel
* Fergusson, James
* Fergusson, Robert
* Ferrier, James Frederick
* Ferrier, Susan Edmonstoune
* Field, Nathaniel
* Fielding, Henry
* Fielding, Sarah
* Filmer, Sir Robert
* Finlay, George
* Fisher, John
* Fiske, John
* Fitzgerald, Edward
* Fitzstephen, William
* Flavel, John
* Flecknoe, Richard
* Fletcher, Andrew
* Fletcher, Giles, And Phineas
* Florence of Worcester
* Florio, John
* Fonblanque, Albany William
* Foote, Samuel
* Forbes, James David
* Ford, John
* Ford, Paul Leicester
* Ford, Richard
* Fordun, John
* Forster, John (historian)
* Fortescue, Sir John
* Forster, John (essayist)
* Foster, Stephen Collins
* Fox, Charles James
* Fox, George
* Foxe, John
* Francis, Sir Philip
* Franklin, Benjamin
* Freeman, Edward Augustus
* Freneau, Philip
* Frere, John Hookham
* Froude, James Anthony
* Fuller, Sarah Margaret
* Fuller, Thomas
* Fullerton, Lady Georgiana

### G

* Gaimar, Geoffrey
* Galt, John
* Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
* Garnett, Richard
* Garrick, David
* Garrison, William Lloyd
* Garth, Sir Samuel
* Gascoigne, George
* Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
* Gatty, Mrs. Alfred
* Gauden, John
* Gay, John
* Geddes, Alexander
* Geoffrey of Monmouth
* Gerard, Alexander
* Gibbon, Edward
* Gifford, Richard
* Gifford, William
* Gildas
* Gilder, Richard Watson
* Gildon, Charles
* Gilfillan, George
* Gilfillan, Robert
* Gillespie, George
* Gillies, John
* Giraldus Cambrensis
* Gissing, George
* Gladstone, William Ewart
* Glanvill, Joseph
* Glapthorne, Henry
* Glascock, William Nugent
* Gleig, George Robert
* Glen, William
* Glover, Richard
* Godwin, Mrs. Mary
* Godwin, William
* Golding, Arthur
* Goldsmith, Oliver
* Goodall, Walter
* Goodwin, Thomas
* Googe, Barnabe
* Gordon, Adam Lindsay
* Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances
* Gosson, Stephen
* Gough, Richard
* Gower, John
* Grafton, Richard
* Grahame, James
* Grahame, Simon or Simion
* Grainger, James
* Granger, James
* Grant, James
* Grant, James Augustus
* Grant, Mrs. Anne
* Grattan, Thomas Colley
* Gray, David
* Gray, Thomas
* Greeley, Horace
* Green, John Richard
* Green, Matthew
* Green, Thomas Hill
* Greene, Robert
* Greg, William Rathbone
* Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke
* Griffin, Bartholomew
* Griffin, Gerald
* Grimoald, Nicholas
* Groome, Francis Hindes
* Grosart, Alexander Balloch
* Grose, Francis
* Grosseteste, Robert
* Grote, George
* Grub, George
* Guest, Lady Charlotte
* Guthrie, Thomas

### H

* Habington, William
* Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord
* Hake, Thomas Gordon
* Hakluyt, Richard
* Hale, Sir Matthew
* Hales, John
* Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
* Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of
* Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria
* Hall, Basil
* Hall, or Halle, Edward
* Hall, Joseph
* Hall, Robert
* Hallam, Henry
* Halleck, Fitzgreene
* Halliwell-Phillips, James Orchard
* Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
* Hamilton, Alexander
* Hamilton, Elizabeth
* Hamilton, Thomas
* Hamilton, William (of Bangour)
* Hamilton, William (of Gilbertfield)
* Hamilton, Sir William
* Hanna, William
* Hannay, James
* Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert
* Hare, Augustus William
* Hare, Julius Charles
* Harington, Sir John
* Harland, Henry
* Harrington, James
* Harris, James
* Harris, Joel Chandler
* Harte, Francis Bret
* Hartley, David
* Harvey, Gabriel
* Hawes, Stephen
* Hawker, Robert Stephen
* Hawthorne, Nathaniel
* Hay, John
* Hayley, William
* Hayne, Paul Hamilton
* Hayward, Abraham
* Hayward, Sir John
* Haywood, Mrs. Eliza
* Hazlitt, William
* Head, Sir Francis Bond
* Hearn, Lafcadio
* Hearne, Thomas
* Heber, Reginald
* Helps, Sir Arthur
* Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
* Henley, William Ernest
* Henry, Matthew
* Henry, Robert
* Henry VIII.
* Henry of Huntingdon
* Henryson, Robert
* Henty, George Alfred
* Heraud, John Abraham
* Herbert, George
* Herbert, Sir Thomas
* Herbert, of Cherbury, Edward, 1st Lord
* Herd, David
* Herrick, Robert
* Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
* Hervey, James
* Hervey, John, Lord
* Heylin, Peter
* Heywood, John
* Heywood, Thomas
* Higden, Ranulf or Ralph
* Hill, Aaron
* Hinton, James
* Hoadley, Benjamin
* Hobbes, Thomas
* Hoby, Sir Thomas
* Hoccleve, or Occleve, Thomas
* Hoffman, Charles Fenno
* Hogg, James
* Hogg, Thomas Jefferson
* Holcroft, Thomas
* Holinshed, or Hollingshead, Raphael or Ralph
* Holland, Josiah Gilbert
* Holland, Philemon
* Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* Home, John
* Hone, William
* Hood, Thomas
* Hook, Theodore Edward
* Hook, Walter Farquhar
* Hooker, Richard
* Hoole, John
* Hope, Thomas
* Horne, Richard Henry or Hengist
* Horne, Thomas Hartwell
* Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord
* Howard, Edward
* Howard, Sir Robert
* Howe, John
* Howell, James
* Howie, John
* Howitt, William
* Huchown, or Sir Hugh of Eglinton
* Hughes, John
* Hughes, Thomas
* Hume, Alexander
* Hume, David,
* Hunnis, William
* Hunt, James Henry Leigh
* Hurd, Richard
* Hutcheson, Francis
* Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy
* Hutton, Richard Holt
* Huxley, Thomas Henry

### I

* Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth
* Ingelow, Jean
* Innes, Cosmo
* Innes, Thomas
* Ireland, William Henry
* Irving, Edward
* Irving, Washington

### J

* James, George Payne Rainsford
* James I., King of Scotland
* Jameson, Mrs. Anna Brownell
* Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse
* Jefferies, Richard
* Jeffrey, Francis
* Jerrold, Douglas William
* Jesse, John Heneage
* Jevons, William Stanley
* Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor
* John of Salisbury
* Johnson, Lionel
* Johnson, Samuel (essayist)
* Johnson, Samuel (political writer)
* Johnston, Arthur
* Johnstone, Charles
* Jones, Ebenezer
* Jones, Ernest Charles
* Jones, Sir William
* Jonson, Ben or Benjamin
* Jortin, John
* Jowett, Benjamin
* Judd, Sylvester

### K

* Kames, Henry Home, Lord
* Kavanagh, Julia
* Kaye, Sir John William
* Keary, Annie
* Keats, John
* Keble, John
* Keightley, Thomas
* Keith, Robert
* Kelly, Hugh
* Ken, Thomas
* Kennedy, John Pendleton
* Kennedy, Walter
* Killigrew, Thomas
* King, Henry
* Kinglake, Alexander William
* Kingsford, William
* Kingsley, Charles
* Kingsley, Henry
* Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
* Kingston, William Henry Giles
* Kirkland, Joseph
* Kitto, John
* Knight, Charles
* Knight, Henry Gally
* Knolles, Richard
* Knowles, Herbert
* Knowles, James Sheridan
* Knox, John
* Knox, Vicesimus
* Knox, William
* Kyd, Thomas

### L

* L'Estrange, Sir Roger
* Laidlaw, William
* Laing, David
* Laing, Malcolm
* Lamb, Charles
* Lamb, Lady Caroline
* Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
* Landor, Walter Savage
* Lane, Edward William
* Langhorne, John
* Langland, William
* Lanier, Sidney
* Lardner, Dionysius
* Latimer, Hugh
* Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick
* Law, William
* Lawrence, George Alfred
* Layamon
* Layard, Sir Austin Henry
* Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
* Lear, Edward
* Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
* Lee, Nathaniel
* Lee, Sophia
* Leighton, Robert
* Leland, Charles Godfrey
* Leland or Leyland, John
* Lemon, Mark
* Lennox, Charlotte
* Leslie, or Lesley, John
* Lever, Charles James
* Lewes, George Henry
* Lewis, Matthew Gregory
* Lewis, Sir George Cornewall
* Leyden, John
* Liddell, Henry George
* Liddon, Henry Parry
* Lightfoot, Joseph Barber
* Lillo, George
* Lindsay, or Lindesay, Robert
* Lindsay, or Lyndsay, Sir David
* Lingard, John
* Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn
* Lister, Thomas Henry
* Lithgow, William
* Livingstone, David
* Lloyd, Robert
* Locke, David Ross
* Locke, John
* Locker-Lampson, Frederick
* Lockhart, John Gibson
* Lodge, Thomas
* Logan, John
* Long, George
* Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
* Lovelace, Richard
* Lover, Samuel
* Lowell, James Russell
* Lowth, Robert
* Lydgate, John
* Lyell, Sir Charles
* Lyly, John
* Lyte, Henry Francis
* Lyttelton, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton
* Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Lord
* Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer, 1st Earl Of Lytton

### M

* M'Cosh, James
* M'Crie, Thomas
* M'Lennan, John Ferguson
* Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine
* Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord
* Maccarthy, Denis Florence
* Macdonald, George
* Mackay, Charles
* Mackenzie, Henry
* Mackenzie, Sir George
* Mackintosh, Sir James
* Macklin, Charles
* Macleod, Norman
* Macneill, Hector
* Macpherson, James
* Maginn, William
* Mahony, Francis Sylvester
* Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner
* Mair, or Major, John
* Maitland, Sir Richard
* Malcolm, Sir John
* Mallet, originally Malloch, David
* Malone, Edmund
* Malory, Sir Thomas
* Malthus, Thomas Robert
* Mandeville, Bernard de
* Mandeville, Sir John.
* Mangan, James Clarence
* Manley, Mrs. Mary De La Riviere
* Manning, Anne
* Manning, Henry Edward
* Mannyng, Robert, or Robert De Brunne
* Mansel, Henry Longueville
* Map, or Mapes, Walter de
* Markham, Gervase
* Marlowe, Christopher
* Marmion, Shackerley
* Marryat, Frederick
* Marsh, Herbert
* Marston, John
* Marston, Philip Bourke
* Martin, Sir Theodore
* Martineau, Harriet
* Martineau, James
* Marvell, Andrew
* Mason, William
* Massey, Gerald
* Massinger, Philip
* Masson, David
* Mather, Cotton
* Mathias, Thomas James
* Maturin, Charles Robert
* Maurice, Frederick Denison
* Max-Muller, Friedrich
* Maxwell, William Hamilton
* May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
* May, Thomas
* Mayne, Jasper
* Mayne, John
* Melville, Herman
* Melville, James
* Melville, Sir James
* Meredith, George
* Meres, Francis
* Merivale, Charles
* Meston, William
* Mickle, William Julius
* Middleton, Conyers
* Middleton, Thomas
* Mill, James
* Mill, John Stuart
* Miller, Hugh
* Miller, Thomas
* Milman, Henry Hart
* Milton, John
* Minot, Laurence
* Minto, William
* Mitchell, John
* Mitford, Mary Russell
* Mitford, William
* Moir, David Macbeth
* Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord
* Montagu, Elizabeth
* Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
* Montgomerie, Alexander
* Montgomery, James
* Montgomery, Robert
* Moore, Edward
* Moore, John
* Moore, Thomas
* More, Hannah
* More, Henry
* More, Sir Thomas
* Morgan, Lady
* Morier, James Justinian
* Morison, James Cotter
* Morley, Henry
* Morris, Sir Lewis
* Morris, William
* Morton, Thomas
* Motherwell, William
* Motley, John Lothrop
* Moultrie, John
* Mulock, Dinah Maria
* Munday, Anthony
* Mure, William
* Murphy, Arthur
* Murray, Lindley
* Myers, Frederic William Henry

### N

* Nabbes, Thomas
* Nairne, Carolina
* Napier, Mark
* Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick
* Nash, Thomas
* Nayler, James
* Neal, John
* Neaves, Charles, Lord
* Neckham, Alexander
* Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of
* Newman, Francis William
* Newman, John Henry
* Newton, John
* Newton, Sir Isaac
* Nichol, John
* Noel, Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley
* Norris, John
* North, Sir Thomas
* Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah
* Norton, Charles Eliot

### O

* O'Keeffe, John
* O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar
* Occam or Ockham, William
* Ockley, Simon
* Oldham, John
* Oldmixon, John
* Oldys, William
* Oliphant, Laurence
* Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant
* Opie, Mrs. Amelia
* Ordericus Vitalis
* Orm, or Ormin
* Orme, Robert
* Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of
* Otway, Cæsar
* Otway, Thomas
* Outram, George
* Overbury, Sir Thomas
* Owen, John
* Owen, John (epigrammatist)
* Owen, John (puritan)
* Owen, Robert
* Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of

### P

* Paine, Thomas
* Painter, William
* Paley, William
* Palgrave, Francis Turner
* Palgrave, Sir Francis
* Paltock, Robert
* Pardoe, Julia
* Paris, Matthew
* Park, Mungo
* Parker, Theodore
* Parkman, Francis
* Parnell, Thomas
* Parr, Dr. Samuel
* Pater, Walter Horatio
* Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
* Pattison, Mark
* Paulding, James Kirke
* Payn, James
* Peacock, Thomas Love
* Pearson, Charles Henry
* Pearson, John
* Pecock, Reginald
* Peele, George
* Penn, William
* Pennant, Thomas
* Pepys, Samuel
* Percival, James Gates
* Percy, Thomas
* Philips, Ambrose
* Philips, John
* Phillips, Samuel
* Picken, Andrew
* Pierpont, John
* Pike, Albert
* Pinkerton, John
* Pinkney, Edward Coate
* Piozzi, Hester Lynch
* Planché, James Robinson
* Poe, Edgar Allan
* Pollok, Robert
* Pomfret, John
* Pope, Alexander
* Pordage, Samuel
* Porson, Richard
* Porter, Anna Maria
* Porter, Jane
* Powell, Frederick York
* Praed, Winthrop Mackworth
* Prescott, William Hickling
* Price, Richard
* Prideaux, Humphrey
* Priestly, Joseph
* Pringle, Thomas
* Prior, Matthew
* Procter, Adelaide Ann
* Procter, Bryan Waller
* Prynne, William
* Psalmanazar, George
* Purchas, Samuel
* Pusey, Edward Bouverie
* Puttenham, George
* Pye, Henry James

### Q

* Quarles, Francis

### R

* Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann
* Raine, Allen
* Raleigh, Sir Walter
* Ramsay, Allan
* Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
* Ramée, Louise De La
* Randolph, Thomas
* Rapin De Thoyras, Paul
* Raspe, Rudolf Eric-
* Rawlinson, George
* Rawlinson, Sir Henry Cresswicke
* Ray, John
* Read, Thomas Buchanan
* Reade, Charles
* Reed, Henry
* Reeve, Clara
* Reeve, Henry
* Reid, Mayne
* Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss
* Reid, Thomas
* Reynolds, Sir Joshua
* Rhodes, William Barnes
* Ricardo, David
* Rice, James
* Rich, Barnabe
* Richardson, Samuel
* Ritchie, Leitch
* Ritson, Joseph
* Robertson, Frederick William
* Robertson, Thomas William
* Robertson, William
* Robinson, Henry Crabb
* Rochester, John Wilmot
* Rogers, Henry
* Rogers, Samuel
* Rolle, Richard
* Rollock, Robert
* Roper, William
* Roscoe, William
* Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of
* Rose, William Stewart
* Rossetti, Christina Georgina
* Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
* Rous, Francis
* Row, John
* Rowe, Nicholas
* Rowley, William
* Ruddiman, Thomas
* Ruskin, John
* Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell
* Russell, Sir William Howard
* Russell, William
* Rutherford, Samuel
* Rycaut, or Ricaut, Sir Paul
* Rymer, Thomas

### S

* Sala, George Augustus Henry
* Sale, George
* Sanderson, Robert
* Sands, Robert Charles
* Sandys, George
* Savage, Richard
* Savile, Sir Henry
* Saxby, Edward
* Scott, Alexander
* Scott, Hugh Stowell
* Scott, John
* Scott, Lady John
* Scott, Michael
* Scott, Sir Walter
* Scott, William Bell
* Sedley, Sir Charles
* Seeley, Sir John Robert
* Selden, John
* Sellar, William Young
* Sempill, Robert
* Senior, Nassau William
* Settle, Elkanah
* Shadwell, Thomas
* Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of
* Shairp, John Campbell
* Shakespeare, William
* Sharp, William
* Shaw, Henry Wheeler
* Shelley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft
* Shelley, Percy Bysshe
* Shenstone, William
* Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
* Sherlock, William
* Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha
* Shirley, James
* Shorthouse, Joseph Henry
* Sibbes, Richard
* Sidney, Sir Philip
* Sidney, or Sydney, Algernon
* Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia
* Simms, William Gilmore
* Skelton, John
* Skelton, Sir John
* Skene, William Forbes
* Skinner, John
* Skipsey, Joseph
* Smart, Christopher
* Smedley, Frank
* Smiles, Samuel
* Smith, Adam
* Smith, Albert
* Smith, Alexander
* Smith, Horace
* Smith, Mrs. Charlotte
* Smith, Sir William
* Smith, Sydney
* Smith, Walter Chalmers
* Smith, William Robertson
* Smollett, Tobias George
* Somerville, Mrs. Mary
* Somerville, William
* Sotheby, William
* South, Robert
* Southerne, Thomas
* Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne
* Southey, Robert
* Southwell, Robert
* Spedding, James
* Speed, John
* Spelman, Sir Henry
* Spence, Joseph
* Spencer, Herbert
* Spencer, William Robert
* Spenser, Edmund
* Spottiswood, John
* Sprague, Charles
* Sprat, Thomas
* Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
* Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope
* Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn
* Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
* Stanley, Thomas
* Stanyhurst, Richard
* Stedman, Edmund Clarence
* Steele, Sir Richard
* Steevens, George
* Steevens, George Warrington
* Stephen, Sir James
* Stephen, Sir Leslie
* Stephens, Thomas
* Sterling, John
* Sterne, Laurence
* Sternhold, Thomas
* Stevenson, Robert Louis
* Stewart, Dugald
* Stillingfleet, Edward
* Stirling, James Hutchison
* Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of
* Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William
* Stockton, Francis Richard
* Stoddard, Richard Henry
* Storer, Thomas
* Story, William Wetmore
* Stow, John
* Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
* Strickland, Agnes
* Strode, William
* Strype, John
* Stuart, Gilbert
* Stubbs, William
* Stukeley, William
* Suckling, Sir John
* Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
* Surtees, Robert Smith
* Swift, Jonathan
* Swinburne, Algernon Charles
* Sylvester, Joshua
* Symonds, John Addington
* Synge, John Millington

### T

* Tabley De, John Byron Leicester Warren, 3rd Lord
* Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon
* Tannahill, Robert
* Tate, Nahum
* Tatham, John
* Tautphoeus, Baroness
* Taylor, Bayard
* Taylor, Isaac
* Taylor, Jeremy
* Taylor, John
* Taylor, Philip Meadows
* Taylor, Sir Henry
* Taylor, Thomas
* Taylor, Tom
* Taylor, William
* Temple, Sir William
* Tennant, William
* Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord
* Tennyson, Frederick
* Tennyson Turner, Charles
* Thackeray, William Makepeace
* Theobald, Lewis
* Thirwall, Connop
* Thoms, William John
* Thomson, James (1700-1748)
* Thomson, James (1834-1882)
* Thoreau, Henry David
* Tickell, Thomas
* Ticknor, George
* Tighe, Mary
* Tillotson, John
* Timrod, Henry
* Tobin, John
* Toland, John
* Tooke, John Horne
* Toplady, Augustus Montague
* Tourneur, or Turner, Cyril
* Traherne, Thomas
* Trelawny, Edward John
* Trench, Richard Chenevix
* Trevisa, John of
* Trollope, Anthony
* Trollope, Mrs. Frances
* Trumbull, John
* Tucker, Abraham
* Tucker, George
* Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly
* Tuckerman, Henry Theodore
* Tulloch, John
* Tupper, Martin Farquhar
* Turberville, or Turbervile, George
* Turner, Sharon
* Tusser, Thomas
* Twain, Mark
* Tyndale, William
* Tyndall, John
* Tytler, Alexander Fraser
* Tytler, Patrick Fraser
* Tytler, William

### U

* Udall, Nicolas
* Underdown, Thomas
* Underwood, Francis Henry
* Urquhart, Sir Thomas
* Usk, Thomas
* Ussher, James

### V

* Vanbrugh, Sir John
* Vaughan, Henry
* Vaughan, Robert
* Veitch, John
* Very, Jones

### W

* Wace
* Wade, Thomas
* Wakefield, Gilbert
* Wallace, Lewis
* Waller, Edmund
* Waller, John Francis
* Walpole, Horatio or Horace
* Walpole, Sir Spencer
* Walton, Izaak
* Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George
* Warburton, William
* Ward, Robert Plumer
* Ward, William George
* Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady
* Warner, Susan
* Warner, William
* Warren, Samuel
* Warton, Joseph
* Warton, Thomas
* Waterland, Daniel
* Waterton, Charles
* Watson, John
* Watson, Robert
* Watson, Thomas
* Watts, Alaric Alexander
* Watts, Isaac
* Waugh, Edwin
* Webbe, William
* Webster, Daniel
* Webster, John
* Webster, Mrs. Augusta
* Webster, Noah
* Wells, Charles Jeremiah
* Wendover, Roger de
* Wesley, Charles
* Wesley, John
* Westall, William
* Wharton, Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquis of
* Whateley, Richard
* Whetstone, George
* Whewell, William
* Whichcote, Benjamin
* Whipple, Edwin Percy
* Whiston, William
* White, Gilbert
* White, Henry Kirke
* White, Joseph Blanco
* White, Richard Grant
* Whitehead, Charles
* Whitehead, William
* Whitman, Walter or Walt
* Whitney, William Dwight
* Whittier, John Greenleaf
* Whyte-Melville, George John
* Wiclif, or Wyclif, John
* Wilberforce, William
* Wilcox, Carles
* Wilde, Oscar O'Flaherty
* Wilkes, John
* Wilkie, William
* Wilkins, John
* Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner
* William of Malmesbury
* William of Newburgh, or Newbury
* Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury
* Willis, Browne
* Willis, Nathaniel Parker
* Wills, James
* Wills, William Gorman
* Wilson, Alexander
* Wilson, John
* Wilson, John (orientalist)
* Wilson, John (poet)
* Wilson, Sir Daniel
* Wilson, Thomas
* Wingate, David
* Winthrop, Theodore
* Wither, George
* Wodrow, Robert
* Wolcot, John
* Wolfe, Charles
* Wood, John George
* Wood, Mrs. Ellen
* Wood, or à Wood, Anthony
* Woolman, John
* Woolner, Thomas
* Wordsworth, Christopher
* Wordsworth, Christopher (biographer)
* Wordsworth, Christopher (bishop)
* Wordsworth, Dorothy
* Wordsworth, William
* Wotton, Sir Henry
* Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel William
* Wright, Thomas
* Wyatt, Sir Thomas
* Wycherley, William
* Wyntoun, Andrew of

### Y

* Yalden, Thomas
* Yates, Edmund
* Yonge, Charlotte Mary
* Young, Arthur
* Young, Edward

## Living Writers

* Appendix of Living Writers
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